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| Article Name : | | | DETERMINATION OF BURST PRESSURE OF VEHICLE LPG CYLINDER AND ITS OPTIMIZATION USING ANSYS APPROACH | | Author Name : | | | Sudha Rani , Amba Das K. | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6166 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | LPG is commonly used as an alternative fuel for automotive internal combustion engines. Now a day, a number of fire accidents are reported in news because of the failure of these cylinders. While in use pressure of the LPG in the cylinders is prone to increase, this is because of over filling of the gas tanks and also temperature is one of the factors for increase in pressure. On over filling, adds the gas molecules and collision of gas molecules takes place and hence which increases the gas pressure. This increase in the pressure of LPG in the cylinder, may lead to bursting of the cylinder resulting in the fire hazardous. A number of fire accidents have been reported in recent past. Hence in order to avoid bursting of LPG cylinder, radial and circumferential stiffeners are to be provided at the outer surface of the vehicle LPG cylinder. Experimental work has been carried out by various pioneers. The results of the experimental and FEM are compared for authentification in the present work, analysis is carried out to determine the burst pressure and burst failure location using FEM. | | Keywords : | | |
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