Seal contact performance analysis of soft seals on high-pressure hydrogen charge valves

The charge valve is an important element in the charging port of a high-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder(HP-HSC).It is normally closed after the HP-HSC is filled with hydrogen.If the seal of the charge valve is damaged,it will seriously affect the stable operation of the hydrogen supply system and may even cause safety problems.Therefore,the seal performance of the charge valve is important.In this paper,finite element analysis(FEA)is carried out to analyze the seal contact performance of hydrogenated nitrile rubber(HNBR)gaskets in the seal pair of a charge valve.The effects of different pre-compressions,seal widths,and hydrogen pressures on the seal contact performance of the charge valve are analyzed.The contact pressure on the seal surface increases with the increase of pre-compression.With a pre-compression of 2.5 mm,the maximum contact pressure without and with hydrogen pressure are 68.51 and 107.38 MPa,respectively.A contact gap appears in the inner ring of the seal surface with pre-compression below 0.15 mm.The contact gap occurs between the entire seal surface with a seal width of1 mm.The contact pressure on the seal surface and the width of the separation area between the seal surfaces increase with the increase of the seal width.The contact gap between the seal surfaces is zero with a width of 2.5 mm.The width of the separation area between the seal surfaces decreases with the decrease of the hydrogen pressure.The width of the separation area is reduced from 0.5 mm at 35 MPa to 0.17 mm at 15 MPa.This work can be useful for improvement of the seal performance and of the design of the charge valve used in the HP-HSC.

Effect of surface manganese oxide species on soot catalytic combustion of Ce-Mn-O catalyst

Constructing cerium and manganese bimetallic catalysts with excellent catalytic performance for soot combustion is the research frontier at present.In order to find out the key factors for catalytic soot combustion of Ce-Mn-O catalysts,a series of Ce-Mn-O catalysts with different Ce/Mn proportions were prepared by co-precipitation method.The activity test results show that it increases first and then decreases with the increase of Mn content.The best catalytic activity is obtained for Ce_(0.64)Mn_(0.36) catalyst,which shows a maximum rate temperature(T_(m)) at 306℃ for CO_(2) production in TPO curve.Compared with non-catalytic soot combustion,the T_(m) decreases by mo re than 270℃.Syste matical characte rization results suggest that when the adsorbed surface oxygen,lattice oxygen,specific surface area and total reduction amount of the catalysts reach a certain value,the key factors leading to the difference of catalytic activity become the readily reducible and highly dispersed surface manganese oxide species and contact performance of the external surface.The surface manganese oxide species is beneficial to improving the low-temperature reducibility of catalysts and the porous surface is conducive to the contact between catalyst and soot.Furthermore,for the soot combustion reaction containing only O_(2),the promoting effect of Mn^(4+)is not obvious.