High-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder with plastic lining and fiber reinforced composite material
Technical Field
The invention relates to high-pressure hydrogen storage equipment, in particular to a high-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder made of a plastic lining fiber reinforced composite material.
Background
With the continuous development of new energy automobiles, hydrogen energy is increasingly used as a clean and efficient renewable energy source. High-pressure hydrogen storage is still a current main hydrogen storage mode, and most of currently used gas cylinder liners are metal liners, carbon fiber glass fibers are wound on the outer layers of the gas cylinder liners. With the increase of the requirement of hydrogen storage density per unit mass, the hydrogen storage bottle made of the plastic lining composite material is developed.
There are many patents related to the structure of the IV type gas cylinder, such as korean composite research limited's US7648042B2 "a metal gas cylinder port design for a composite high pressure gas cylinder", US US20170276294A1"High gas-tightened metallic nozzle-boss for a high pressure composite vessel",US20170276294A1"Boss and liner interface for a pressure vessel", Toyota industry corporation, US 2006060484 "high pressure gas cylinder seal", toyota motor vehicle corporation, international patent PCT/JP2009/060067 "gas cylinder and method of manufacturing gas cylinder", medium technology (capital) utility model patent CN 201721786654.7 "plastic liner outer diameter of the bottleneck end structure of the high pressure gas cylinder greater than 200 mm", etc. The related designs are made on the structure and the sealing method of the gas cylinder in the patents, the structure forms are various, and the sealing can be realized in the gas storage use process. However, these structures are complicated to manufacture, high in machining precision and high in cost.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the problems in the background technical field, the invention aims to provide the high-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder made of the plastic lining fiber reinforced composite material, which is simple in structure and manufacture and reliable in sealing.
In order to achieve the aim of the invention, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the invention comprises a plastic lining, a metal gas cylinder opening end and a metal gas cylinder tail end, wherein a prestressed fiber reinforced layer is wound on the outer side of the plastic lining, the opening end of the plastic lining is bonded with the axially lower end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end by an adhesive, the lower end of the plastic lining is bonded with the upper end face of the metal gas cylinder tail end, the fiber reinforced layer on the upper end of the plastic lining is bonded with the axially upper end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end, the fiber reinforced layer on the lower end of the plastic lining is bonded with the axially lower end face of the metal gas cylinder tail end, a glass fiber protective layer is wound on the outer side of the fiber reinforced layer, and a gas cylinder head anti-collision layer is arranged on the outer side of the glass fiber protective layer of the two end heads of the metal gas cylinder;
An O-shaped ring is arranged between the axial lower end face of the opening end of the plastic lining and the axial lower end face of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder, the O-shaped ring, an inner retainer ring on the inner side and an outer retainer ring on the outer side are arranged in an O-shaped ring groove on the axial lower end face of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder, the O-shaped ring is screwed with threads on the lower end of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder through a compression nut for the plastic lining, a locking gasket and a spring gasket in sequence, a plurality of metal sheets are uniformly distributed on the locking gasket along the outer circumference, a groove is formed in the outer side of the lower end of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder, and the width of the groove is larger than that of the metal sheets on the locking gasket.
The metal gas cylinder is of an axisymmetric cylindrical structure with two small ends and a large middle part, the center of the metal gas cylinder is provided with a through hole, the outer side of the upper port of the metal gas cylinder is provided with a convex spigot for preventing overflow during fiber winding, and the inner side of the upper port is provided with threads.
The anti-loose gasket is a metal ring, a bulge is arranged on the inner side of the ring shape of the anti-loose gasket in the radial direction, and a plurality of bulges which can be bent are arranged on the outer circumference of the ring shape of the anti-loose gasket.
The large end of the compression nut is cylindrical, the small end of the compression nut is cylindrical metal of a hexagonal nut, a groove is formed in the outer circumference of the cylindrical large end of the compression nut, the width of the groove is larger than the width of a protrusion on the annular outer circumference of the anti-loose gasket, and the depth of the groove is 3-5mm.
The tail end of the metal gas cylinder is arranged between the plastic lining and the fiber reinforced resin matrix composite layer, and a concave hole which does not penetrate through the thickness direction of the gas cylinder is formed in the lower end of the shaft center of the tail end of the metal gas cylinder.
The fibers are carbon fibers, boron fibers, kevlar fibers or glass fibers.
The fiber reinforced layer matrix is epoxy resin, phenolic resin or bismaleimide resin.
The opening end of the metal gas cylinder and the tail end of the metal gas cylinder are made of aluminum alloy or stainless steel.
The plastic lining material is nylon 6 or nylon 66.
The O-shaped ring is made of nitrile rubber or silicon rubber.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1) Light weight and high gas storage density: the lining of the gas cylinder is manufactured by nylon 6, nylon 66 and the like, and is manufactured by adopting a welding method after injection molding. And is lighter in weight than a metal lined type III cylinder.
2) The sealing on the axial end face is adopted at the opening end of the metal gas cylinder, the sealing performance is good, multiple sealing is adopted between the axial end face of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder and the contact surface of the plastic lining to ensure sealing reliability, the O-shaped ring on the axial end face of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder is adopted for sealing in the first layer, the O-shaped ring is restrained by the inner retainer ring and the outer retainer ring to prevent extrusion damage, the anti-loose gasket, the spring gasket and the compression nut are compressed on the plastic lining contacted with the O-shaped ring, and the anti-loose gasket locks the compression nut to prevent loosening in operation, so that the air tightness is effectively ensured. And the second sealing is carried out, and a special adhesive is adopted between the axial end face of the opening end of the metal gas cylinder and the contact surface of the plastic lining to bond the opening end of the metal gas cylinder with the contact position of the plastic lining, so that the sealing effect is further enhanced, and the problem of overlarge deformation and sealing failure caused by different materials is effectively avoided. The third seal is designed by adopting a self-tightening seal, when the pressure in the gas cylinder is higher, the acting force of the gas pressure on the plastic lining is larger, the plastic lining and the opening end of the metal gas cylinder are tightly pressed, and the gas is more difficult to leak through a gap between the plastic lining and the opening end of the metal gas cylinder.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of the structure of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view at a in fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a front cross-sectional view of the open end of a metal cylinder.
Fig. 4 is a top view of the anti-loose gasket.
Fig. 5 is a top view of the compression nut.
In the figure, 1, an anti-collision layer of a gas cylinder seal head, 2, a glass fiber protection layer, 3, a fiber reinforcement layer, 4, an opening end of a metal gas cylinder, 5, an inner check ring, 6, an outer check ring, 7, a plastic lining, 8, an O-shaped ring, 9, an anti-loose gasket, 10, a spring gasket, 11, a compression nut, 12 and a tail end of the metal gas cylinder.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below with reference to the drawings and examples.
As shown in figures 1 and 2, the invention comprises a plastic lining 7, a metal gas cylinder opening end 4 and a metal gas cylinder tail end 12, wherein a prestressed fiber reinforced layer 3 is wound on the outer side of the plastic lining 7, the opening end of the plastic lining 7 is bonded with the axially lower end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4 by using an adhesive, the lower end of the plastic lining 7 is bonded with the upper end face of the metal gas cylinder tail end 12, the fiber reinforced layer 3 on the upper end of the plastic lining 7 is bonded with the axially upper end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4, the fiber reinforced layer 3 on the lower end of the plastic lining 7 is bonded with the axially lower end face of the metal gas cylinder tail end 12, a glass fiber protective layer 2 is wound on the outer side of the fiber reinforced layer 3, and a gas cylinder head anti-collision layer 1 is arranged on the outer side of the glass fiber protective layer 2 of the two end heads of the metal gas cylinder.
An O-shaped ring 8,O is arranged between the axial lower end face of the opening end of the plastic lining 7 and the axial lower end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4, an inner retainer ring 5at the inner side and an outer retainer ring 6 at the outer side are arranged in O-shaped ring grooves on the axial lower end face of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4, the O-shaped ring 8 sequentially passes through the plastic lining 7, an anti-loose gasket 9 and a spring gasket 10 to be screwed tightly with threads at the lower end of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4 by using compression nuts 11, a plurality of metal sheets are uniformly distributed on the anti-loose gasket 9 along the outer circumference, and a groove is formed at the outer side of the threads at the lower end of the metal gas cylinder opening end 4, wherein the width of the groove is more than 1mm of the metal sheets on the anti-loose gasket 9.
As shown in fig. 1,2 and 3, the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder is of an axisymmetric cylindrical structure with small two ends and large middle, a through hole is formed in the center of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder, a convex spigot for preventing overflow during fiber winding is arranged on the outer side of an upper port of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder, threads are arranged on the inner side of the hole of the upper end, and an O-shaped ring groove is formed on the surface, which is attached to the plastic lining 7, of the axially lower end surface of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder.
As shown in fig. 1,2 and 4, the anti-loose gasket 9 is a metal ring, the inner side of the ring shape of the anti-loose gasket 9 is radially provided with a convex metal sheet, and the outer circumference of the ring shape of the anti-loose gasket 9 is provided with a plurality of (3-8) convex metal sheets which can be bent.
As shown in fig. 1,2 and 5, the large end of the compression nut 11 is cylindrical, the small end of the compression nut is cylindrical metal of a hexagonal nut, a groove is formed in the outer circumference of the cylindrical large end of the compression nut 11, the width of the groove is larger than the width of a protrusion on the annular outer circumference of the anti-loose gasket 9 by more than 1mm, and the depth of the groove is 3-5mm.
As shown in fig. 1, the tail end 12 of the metal gas cylinder is disposed between the plastic liner 7 and the fiber reinforced resin matrix composite layer 3, and a concave hole which does not penetrate through the thickness direction of the gas cylinder is formed in the lower end of the shaft center of the tail end 12 of the metal gas cylinder for weight reduction.
The fibers are carbon fibers, boron fibers, kevlar fibers, glass fibers or the like.
The fiber reinforced layer matrix is epoxy resin, phenolic resin or bismaleimide resin and the like.
The material of the opening end 4 and the tail end 12 of the metal gas cylinder is aluminum alloy or other stainless steel or high-strength steel.
The plastic lining 7 is made of high polymer materials such as nylon 6 or nylon 66 or polypropylene.
The O-shaped ring 8 is made of sealing materials with hydrogen corrosion resistance, such as nitrile rubber, silicon rubber, fluororubber and the like.
The manufacturing process of the plastic lining fiber reinforced composite material high-pressure hydrogen storage cylinder comprises the following steps:
1) The plastic lining 7 is formed by two halves, each half is processed by injection molding, and then the whole plastic lining is formed by circular seam splicing by using a welding method.
2) The inner retainer ring 5, the O-shaped ring 8 and the outer retainer ring 6 are sequentially placed in an O-shaped ring groove on the axially lower end face of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder, one end, provided with the O-shaped ring, of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder is pressed into the open end of the plastic lining 7, and the axially lower end face of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder is tightly adhered to the outer edge of the plastic lining 7 and then glued together.
3) The anti-loose gasket 9 and the spring gasket 10 are sequentially placed on the lower cylindrical thread of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder, the cylindrical end opening of the compression nut 11 is screwed on the lower cylindrical thread of the open end 4 of the metal gas cylinder, the O-shaped ring 8 and the plastic lining 7 are pressed and sealed, and then the metal sheet on the outer circumference of the anti-loose gasket 9 is bent and embedded into the outer side groove of the compression nut 11.