Cryogenic pressurized storage with hump-reinforced vacuum jacket

Patent · Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2021

OSTI ID:1805534

Aceves, Salvador M.; Espinosa-Loza, Francisco; Petitpas, Guillaume; Switzer, Vernon A.; Ledesma-Orozco, Elias Rigoberto; Alcantar-Camarena, Victor Alfonso

A cryogenic hydrogen storage vessel includes an outer vacuum vessel, a reinforcement ring on the outer vacuum vessel, an inner pressure vessel inside of the outer vacuum vessel, and a vacuum space between the outer vacuum vessel and the inner pressure vessel. One embodiment of the cryogenic hydrogen storage vessel includes an outer vacuum vessel; a hump-shaped reinforcement ring on the outer vacuum vessel, the hump-shaped reinforcement ring including an external hump portion that protrudes from the hump-shaped reinforcement ring and an internal recess in the hump-shaped reinforcement ring; an inner pressure vessel inside of the outer vacuum vessel, a vacuum space between the outer vacuum vessel and the inner pressure vessel, and a composite support ring in the vacuum space extending from the hump-shaped reinforcement ring on the outer vacuum vessel to the inner pressure vessel, the composite support ring nested in the recess in the hump-shaped reinforcement ring.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. de Guanajuato (Mexico)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344
• Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA); Universidad de Guanajuato (Guanajuato, MX)
• Patent Number(s): 10,928,006
• Application Number: 16/113,318
• OSTI ID: 1805534
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 08/27/2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English