Safe Composite Pressure Vessels with Self Structural Health Monitoring Capacity - HYMOCA

Project summary

Today, the most efficient and mature means of storing hydrogen is type-IV high pressure composite vessels for on-board applications. However, this technology needs extensive research and development to cut costs and enhance performance and durability to be deployed commercially. Research departments use conservative safety factors for the life cycle/burst pressure ratio and simplified models that lead to over-designed and costly tanks. The HYMOCA project studies new perspectives to design high-performance composite tanks with a self-sensing capacity and provide optimized, safe, and cost-effective solutions for the next generation of high-pressure vessels. An integrated sensing or self-sensing abilities would provide great leverage to reach more economical and designs while remaining safe. The advances of HYMOCA have the potential to open a new range of applications in different sectors, which implies the creation of new market opportunities in the related hydrogen value chain.