Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Epoxy/ Glass-reinforced Pressure Vessel for High-pressure Gas Storage

Abstract

The design, fabrication, and testing of an epoxy-glass reinforced polymer composite pressure vessel suitable for high-pressure gas storage have been reported. In this study composite pressure vessels are made up of aluminum alloy 6063 seamless liner and glass/epoxy composite reinforcement. The aluminum liner, which is developed by extruded aluminum tube of internal diameter 141 mm and wall thickness 4 mm, is subjected to super plastic deformation. Continuous glass fibers impregnated in epoxy resin are wound on the seamless liner by filament winding process. In this work, 10 pressure vessels were manufactured for 3.5 MPa service pressure with marginal safety of 3. Four pressure vessels were subjected to cyclic and burst test; the burst pressures were 10.9, 11.0, 11.0, and 13.0 MPa.