| Experiment ID
| Vented explosion 1
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| Short Description
| Experiments on 29.6% H2-air explosions in a 1 m3 vessel, closed and vented through 0.3 and 0.2 m2 openings.
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| What phenomena were studied
| Pressure reduction by venting
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| What phenomena / effects can be studied
| H2-air vented explosion, deflagration-outflow interaction during venting
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| Instrumentation
| Piezoelectric pressure transducers.
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| Test variables
| Vent area: 0.0, 0.2 and 0.3 m2.
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| Data description / Data completeness
| Smoothed experimental pressure dynamics data for: closed vessel explosion, vent areas 0.2 and 0.3 m2.
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| Data availability
| Publicly available.
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| Source of data / Reference
| Pasman H.J., Groothuisen Th.M. and Gooijer P.H. Design of Pressure Relief Vents, in “Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries”, Ed. Buschman C.H., Elsevier, New-York, 1974, pp.185-189.
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| Why were chosen
| Experiment on a vented H2-air deflagration, relevant to H2-air explosion mitigation by venting. Benchmark exercise to evaluate a model for explosion mitigation by venting.
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| Relevance to the project purposes
| Vented experiment relevant to hydrogen explosion mitigation (WP11 “Safety Measures”).
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| Experimental data
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| Results of simulations
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