Recently, the fuel cell vehicles (FCV) are actively developed in the world. JARI has been done and examined the basic data for FCV standardization as the entrustment of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) from 2000. We have been examined the safety evaluation methods of fuel leakage at the normal usage condition and the collision condition, so that FCV use the compressed hydrogen gas as the fuel source.
We have done the crash test using the moving barrier as simulated FCV to examine the fuel leakage measuring method, as one of the safety evaluation methods of FCV. We examined the fuel leakage detection using the flow meter measurement method, as one of the fuel leakage measurement methods.
The result is as follows.