ISO/DIS 15869.4

Gaseous hydrogen and hydrogen blends -- Land vehicle fuel tanks

Hydrogène gazeux et mélanges d'hydrogène gazeux -- Réservoirs de carburant pour véhicules terrestres

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DRAFT INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/DIS 15869
ISO/TC 197 Secretariat: SCC
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2011-07-07 2011-12-07

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION • МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ПО СТАНДАРТИЗАЦИИ • ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION

Gaseous hydrogen and hydrogen blends — Land vehicle fuel
tanks

Hydrogène gazeux et mélanges d'hydrogène gazeux — Réservoirs de carburant pour véhicules terrestres

(Revision of ISO/TS 15869:2009)
ICS 43.060.40

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Contents Page

Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................. v

1 Scope ...................................................................................................................................................... 1

2 Normative references ............................................................................................................................ 1

3 Terms and definitions ........................................................................................................................... 3

4 Categories of fuel tanks ........................................................................................................................ 5

4.1 Type of fuel ............................................................................................................................................ 5

4.2 Nominal working pressure ................................................................................................................... 6

4.3 Type of service ...................................................................................................................................... 6

4.4 Designation ............................................................................................................................................ 6

5 Service conditions ................................................................................................................................. 6

5.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 6

5.2 Maximum filling pressure ..................................................................................................................... 7

5.3 Filling cycles .......................................................................................................................................... 7

5.4 Design temperature ............................................................................................................................... 7

5.5 Gas composition ................................................................................................................................... 7

5.6 External surfaces ................................................................................................................................... 7

5.7 Fire effects ............................................................................................................................................. 7

6 Information to be recorded ................................................................................................................... 7

6.1 General ................................................................................................................................................... 7

6.2 Statement of service ............................................................................................................................. 7

6.3 Design drawings and information ....................................................................................................... 8

6.4 Stress analysis report ........................................................................................................................... 8

6.5 Material property data ........................................................................................................................... 8

6.6 Fire protection ....................................................................................................................................... 9

6.7 Manufacturing data ............................................................................................................................... 9

7 Materials ................................................................................................................................................. 9

7.1 Compatibility .......................................................................................................................................... 9

7.2 Steel ........................................................................................................................................................ 9

7.3 Stainless steels ...................................................................................................................................... 9

7.4 Aluminium alloys ................................................................................................................................... 9

7.5 Resins ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

7.6 Fibres .................................................................................................................................................... 10

7.7 Plastic liners ........................................................................................................................................ 10

7.8 Metal end bosses ................................................................................................................................. 10

8 Design requirements ........................................................................................................................... 10

8.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 10

8.2 Test pressure ....................................................................................................................................... 10

8.3 Burst pressure and fibre stress ratio ................................................................................................ 10

8.3.1 Fuel tank ............................................................................................................................................... 10

8.3.2 Liner ...................................................................................................................................................... 11

8.4 Stress analysis .................................................................................................................................... 11

8.5 Maximum defect size ........................................................................................................................... 12

8.6 Fire protection ..................................................................................................................................... 12

9 Construction and workmanship ........................................................................................................ 12

9.1 Materials ............................................................................................................................................... 12

9.2 Type 3 metal liner ................................................................................................................................ 13

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9.3 Neck threads, neck ring, foot ring, attachment for support ........................................................... 13

9.4 Forming ................................................................................................................................................ 13

9.5 Fibre winding ....................................................................................................................................... 13

9.6 Curing of thermosetting resins ......................................................................................................... 14

9.7 Auto-frettage ....................................................................................................................................... 14

9.8 Exterior environmental protection .................................................................................................... 14

10 Qualification of new designs ............................................................................................................. 15

10.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 15

10.2 Material tests ....................................................................................................................................... 15

10.2.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 15

10.2.2 Material tests for steel fuel tanks and liners .................................................................................... 15

10.2.3 Material tests for aluminium alloy fuel tanks and liners ................................................................. 15

10.2.4 Material tests for stainless steel liners ............................................................................................. 16

10.2.5 Material tests for plastic liners .......................................................................................................... 16

10.2.6 Resin properties tests ........................................................................................................................ 16

10.3 Baseline tests ...................................................................................................................................... 16

10.3.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 16

10.3.2 Hydrostatic burst pressure test ........................................................................................................ 17

10.3.3 Ambient temperature pressure cycling test .................................................................................... 17

10.3.4 Leak-before-break (LBB) test ............................................................................................................ 17

10.3.5 Fire test ................................................................................................................................................ 17

10.3.6 High strain rate impact test ............................................................................................................... 17

10.3.7 Boss torque test.................................................................................................................................. 17

10.4 Type tests ............................................................................................................................................ 17

10.4.1 General ................................................................................................................................................. 17

10.4.2 Chemical exposure test ..................................................................................................................... 18

10.4.3 Composite flaw tolerance test ........................................................................................................... 18

10.4.4 Accelerated stress rupture test ......................................................................................................... 18

10.4.5 Extreme temperature pressure cycling test ..................................................................................... 18

10.4.6 Impact damage test ............................................................................................................................ 18

10.4.7 Permeation test ................................................................................................................................... 18

10.4.8 Hydrogen gas cycling test ................................................................................................................. 18

10.5 Exemptions .......................................................................................................................................... 18

10.6 Qualification of design changes ....................................................................................................... 19

11 Production and batch tests ............................................................................................................... 21

11.1 Production tests.................................................................................................................................. 21

11.2 Batch tests ........................................................................................................................................... 21

11.2.1 General requirements ......................................................................................................................... 21

11.2.2 Required tests ..................................................................................................................................... 22

11.2.3 Periodic ambient temperature pressure cycling test ...................................................................... 23

11.3 Failure to meet batch and production test requirements ............................................................... 23

12 Markings .............................................................................................................................................. 24

13 Preparation for dispatch .................................................................................................................... 25

Annex A (normative) Requirements for hydrogen blends service ............................................................. 26

Annex B (informative) Rationale for number of filling cycles, permeation rates and carbon fibre

stress ratio considerations ................................................................................................................ 27

Annex C (informative) Manufacturer’s instructions for handling, use and inspection of tanks .............. 31

Annex D (informative) Verification of stress ratios using strain gauges ................................................... 33

Annex E (informative) NDE defect size by flawed fuel tank cycling ........................................................... 34

Annex F (normative) Test methods and acceptance criteria ....................................................................... 35

Annex G (normative) Alternative testing method for fuel tanks of service type A ................................... 44

Bibliography ..................................................................................................................................................... 48

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Foreword

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rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

ISO 15869 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 197, Hydrogen technologies with collaboration from

Technical Committee ISO/TC 22, Road vehicles, and Technical Committee ISO/TC 58, Gas cylinders,

Subcommittee SC 3, Cylinder design.

This edition cancels and replaces ISO/TS 15869:2009, which has been technically revised.

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Gaseous hydrogen and hydrogen blends — Land vehicle fuel
tanks
1 Scope

This International Standard specifies the requirements for lightweight refillable fuel tanks intended for the on-board

storage of high-pressure compressed gaseous hydrogen or hydrogen blends on land vehicles .

This International Standard is not intended as a specification for fuel tanks used for solid, liquid hydrogen or hybrid

cryogenic-high pressure hydrogen storage applications.

This International Standard is applicable for fuel tanks of steel, stainless steel, aluminium or non-metallic

construction material, using any design or method of manufacture suitable for its specified service conditions.

This Standard applies to the following types of fuel tank designs:
 Type 1 – all - metal fuel tank;

 Type 2 – hoop wrapped fuel tank with a load sharing metal liner and composite reinforcement on the

cylindrical part only;

 Type 3 – fully wrapped fuel tank with a load sharing metal liner and composite reinforcement on both the

cylindrical part and dome ends;

 Type 4 – fully wrapped fuel tank with a non-load sharing liner and composite reinforcement in both the

cylindrical part and dome ends.
2 Normative references

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references,

only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any

amendments) applies.

ISO 306, Plastics — Thermoplastic materials — Determination of Vicat softening temperature (VST)

ISO 527-2, Plastics — Determination of tensile properties — Part 2: Test conditions for moulding and extrusion

plastics
ISO 2808, Paints and varnishes — Determination of film thickness
ISO 4624, Paints and varnishes — Pull-off test for adhesion

The first edition of this International Standard only covers gaseous hydrogen and hydrogen blends fuel tanks for use onboard

light duty four-wheel passenger road vehicles and heavy-duty road vehicles. Fuel tanks for other applications are to be added

in the next editions.
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ISO 6506-1, Metallic materials — Brinell hardness test — Part 1: Test method
ISO 7225, Gas cylinders — Precautionary labels

ISO 7866:1999, Gas cylinders — Refillable seamless aluminium alloy gas cylinders — Design, construction and

testing

ISO 9809-1:2010, Gas cylinders — Refillable seamless steel gas cylinders — Design, construction and testing —

Part 1: Quenched and tempered steel cylinders with tensile strength less than 1 100 MPa

ISO 9809-2:2010, Gas cylinders — Refillable seamless steel gas cylinders — Design, construction and testing —

Part 2: Quenched and tempered steel cylinders with tensile strength greater than or equal to 1 100 MPa

ISO 11114-4, Transportable gas cylinders — Compatibility of cylinder and valve materials with gas contents —

Part 4: Test methods for selecting metallic materials resistant to hydrogen embrittlement

ISO 11439, Gas cylinders — High pressure cylinders for the on-board storage of natural gas as a fuel for

automotive vehicles

ISO 14687-1, Hydrogen fuel — Product specification —Part 1: All applications except proton exchange membrane

(PEM) fuel cells for road vehicles

ISO 14687-2 Hydrogen fuel — Product specification — Part 2: Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell

applications for road vehicles

EN 1964-3:2000, Transportable gas cylinders — Specification for the design and construction of refillable

transportable seamless steel gas cylinders of water capacities from 0,5 l up to and including 150 l — Part 3:

Cylinders made of seamless stainless steel with an Rm value of less than 1100 MPa

EN 12862:2000, Transportable gas cylinders — Specification for the design and construction of refillable

transportable welded aluminium alloy gas cylinders

EN 13322-2:2003, Transportable gas cylinders — Refillable welded steel gas cylinders — Design and

construction — Part 2: Stainless steel

CSA HPRD-1: 2007, Basic Requirements for Pressure Relief Devices for Compressed Hydrogen Vehicle Fuel

Containers
ASTM B 117, Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus

ASTM D 522, Standard Test Methods for Mandrel Bend Test of Attached Organic Coatings

ASTM D 1308, Standard Test Method for Effect of Household Chemicals on Clear and Pigmented Organic

Finishes

ASTM D 2344, Standard Test Method for Short-Beam Strength of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials and Their

Laminates

ASTM D 2794, Standard Test Method for Resistance of Organic Coatings to the Effects of Rapid Deformation

(Impact)
ASTM D 3170, Standard Test Method for Chipping Resistance of Coatings
1) To be published.
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ASTM D 3418, Standard Test Method for Transition Temperatures of Polymers by Differential Scanning

Calorimetry

ASTM G 154, Standard Practice for Operating Fluorescent Light Apparatus for UV Exposure of Nonmetallic

Materials
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
auto-frettage

pressure application procedure used in manufacturing composite fuel tanks with metal liners, which strains the

liner past its yield point

NOTE Auto-frettage results in the liner having compressive stresses and the fibres having tensile stresses at zero internal

pressure.
3.2
auto-frettage pressure

pressure within the over-wrapped composite fuel tank at which the required distribution of stresses between the

liner and the over-wrap is established
3.3
batch of composite fuel tanks

group of not more than 200 fuel tanks plus fuel tanks for destructive testing, or if greater, one shift of successive

production of fuel tanks, successively produced from qualified liners having the same size, design, specified

materials of construction and manufacturing process
3.4
batch of metal fuel tanks/liners

group of not more than 200 fuel tanks/liners plus fuel tanks/liners for destructive testing, or if greater, one shift of

successive production of metal fuel tanks/liners, successively produced having the same nominal diameter, wall

thickness, design, specified material of construction, manufacturing process, equipment for manufacturing and

heat treatment, and conditions of time, temperature and atmosphere during heat treatment

3.5
batch of non-metallic liners

group of not more than 200 liners plus liners for destructive testing, or if greater, one shift of successive

production of non-metallic liners, successively produced having the same nominal diameter, wall thickness,

design, specified material of construction and manufacturing process
3.6
burst pressure

pressure that causes the bursting of a pressure vessel subjected to a constant increase of pressure during a

destructive test
3.7
controlled tension winding

process used in manufacturing hoop-wrapped composite fuel tanks with metal liners by which compressive

stresses in the liner and tensile stresses in the over-wrap at zero internal pressure are obtained by winding the

reinforcing filaments under high tension
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3.8
design change

change in the selection of structural materials or dimensional changes exceeding the tolerances as on the design

drawings
3.9
finished fuel tanks

fuel tanks, which are ready for, use, typical of normal production, complete with identification marks and external

coating including integral insulation specified by the manufacturer, but free from non-integral insulation or

protection
3.10
fully wrapped composite fuel tank

fuel tank with an over-wrap having a filament wound reinforcement both in the circumferential and axial direction

of the fuel tank
3.11
hoop-wrapped composite fuel tank

fuel tank with an over-wrap having a filament wound reinforcement in a substantially circumferential pattern over

the cylindrical portion of the liner so that the filament does not carry any significant load in a direction parallel to

the longitudinal axis of the fuel tank
3.12
hydrogen blend
mixture of natural gas and more than 2% hydrogen by volume
3.13
hydrogen storage system

system on a land vehicle comprised of the fuel tank and all closure devices (e.g. shut-off valves, check valves and

thermally activated pressure relief devices) and piping that contain hydrogen at the nominal working pressure

3.14
leakage
release of gas through a crack, pore, unbonded or similar defect

NOTE Permeation through the wall of a Type 4 fuel tank that is less than the rates described in F.16 is not considered

leakage.
3.15
liner

container that is used as an inner shell, on which reinforcing fibres are filament wound to reach the necessary

strength
3.16
manufacturer
organization responsible for the design, manufacturing and testing of fuel tanks
3.17
nominal working pressure

settled pressure of compressed gas at a uniform temperature of 15 °C in a full fuel tank

3.18
over-wrap
reinforcement system of filament and resin applied over the liner
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3.19
thermally activated pressure relief device

device that activates by temperature to release pressure and prevent a fuel tank from bursting due to fire effects

and which will activate regardless of fuel tank pressure
3.20
pre-stress
process of applying auto-frettage or controlled tension winding
3.21
service conditions

conditions that the fuel tank will experience in service and which includes on-road exposure to environmental

factors (road salt, acids, bases, temperature extremes) and expected usage (pressure cycles associated with

filling and defilling during service and driving, static pressure associated with vehicle parking, etc.)

3.22
settled pressure
gas pressure when a given set
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