26/30516376 DC

This standard 26/30516376 DC Draft BS EN 17339:2024 AMD1. Transportable gas cylinders. Hoop wrapped and fully wrapped carbon composite cylinders and tubes for hydrogen is classified in these ICS categories:

• 23.020.35 Gas cylinders

This document specifies minimum requirements for the materials, design, construction, prototype testing and routine manufacturing inspections of composite gas cylinders and tubes for compressed hydrogen. NOTE 1 Unless specified in the text, for the purposes of this document, the word “cylinder” includes tubes. This document applies to - fully wrapped composite cylinders (Type 3 and Type 4) - hoop wrapped cylinders (Type 2) with carbon fibres intended to be permanently mounted in a frame (e.g. bundle or trailer) with a test pressure of not less than 300 bar, with: — non-metallic liners (for Type 4) or seamless metallic liners (for Type 2 and Type 3), — a maximum water capacity of 3 000 l — a maximum working pressure of 1 000 bar. — the product of working pressure times water capacity (p x V) not exceeding 1 000 000 bar.l. NOTE 2 A glass fibre protective layer is sometimes applied to the external surface of the cylinder