MULTILAYER STRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTING OR STORING HYDROGEN

Abstract

The use of a sealing layer of a composition including at least one polyamide for preparing a multicore structure intended for the transport, distribution or storage of hydrogen, in particular for the distribution or storage of hydrogen, especially for the storage of hydrogen, the sealing layer satisfying a test for contaminants present in the hydrogen and extracted from the sealing layer after contact of the hydrogen with same, the test been carried out as defined in the standard CSA/ANSI CHMC 2: 19, the total proportion of said contaminants extracted in the hydrogen being less than or equal to 3% by weight, in particular less than 2% by weight of the sum of the constituents of the composition.

Claims

1. A use of a sealing layer consisting of a composition comprising at least one polyamide for preparing a multilayer structure intended for the transport, the distribution or the storage of hydrogen, said sealing layer satisfying a test for contaminants present in the hydrogen and extracted from said sealing layer after contact of the hydrogen with same, said test being carried out as defined in the standard CSA/ANSI CHMC 2:19, the total proportion of said contaminants extracted in the hydrogen being less than or equal to 3% by weight of the sum of the constituents of said composition.

2. The use according to claim 1, wherein the extracted contaminants are selected from the plasticizers, the stabilizers, the oligomers, water, a fatty substance, volatile organic compounds and a mixture thereof.

3. The use according to claim 2, wherein the proportion by weight of each extracted individual contaminant is less than or equal to 1%.

4. The use according to claim 2, wherein the composition of the contaminants extracted is as follows: up to 1% of plasticizers, up to 0.5% of stabilizers, up to 0.5% of oligomers, up to 0.5% of water, up to 0.5% of fatty substance, and up to 0.5% of volatile organic compounds, the sum of the extracted contaminants being less than or equal to 3% by weight of the sum of the constituents of said composition.

5. The use according to claim 1, wherein said composition comprises the following by weight: at least 63.5% of polyamide, from 0 to less than 30% of impact modifier, from 0 to 1.5% of plasticizer, and from 0 to 5% by weight of additives, the sum of the constituents of the composition being equal to 100%.

6. The use according to claim 1, wherein the extracted contaminants are selected from the stabilizers, water, oil, volatile organic compounds and a mixture thereof.

7. The use according to claim 6, wherein the proportion by weight of each extracted individual contaminant is less than or equal to 0.5%.

8. The use according to claim 6, wherein the composition of the extracted contaminants is as follows: up to 0.5% of stabilizers, up to 0.5% of water, up to 0.5% of fatty substance, and up to 0.5% of volatile organic compounds, the sum of the contaminants being less than or equal to 2% by weight of the sum of the constituents of said composition.

9. The use according to claim 6, wherein said composition comprises by weight: at least 63.5% of polyamide, from 0 to less than 30% of impact modifier, especially from 0 to less than 15% of impact modifier, and from 0 to 5% by weight of additives, the sum of the constituents of the composition being equal to 100%.

10. The use according to claim 1, wherein the polyamide is selected from an aliphatic polyamide, a semi-aromatic polyamide and a mixture thereof.

11. The use according to claim 10, wherein the polyamide is aliphatic and selected from PA6, PA66, PA11, PA12, PA610, PA612, PA1010, PA1012 and PA1212.

12. The use according to claim 10, wherein the polyamide is semi-aromatic and selected from polyamide 11/5T, 11/6T, 11/10T, MXDT/10T, MPMDT/10T and BACT/10T.

13. A multilayer structure comprising at least one sealing layer consisting of a composition comprising at least one polyamide for preparing a multilayer structure intended for the transport, the distribution or the storage of hydrogen, said sealing layer satisfying a test for contaminants present in the hydrogen and extracted from said sealing layer after contact of the hydrogen with same, said test being carried out as defined in the standard CSA/ANSI CHMC 2:19, the total proportion of said contaminants extracted in the hydrogen being less than or equal to 3% by weight of the sum of the constituents of said composition.

14. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein it corresponds to a tank and further comprises at least one composite reinforcement layer, said sealing layer being in contact with the hydrogen.

15. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein at least one of said composite reinforcement layers consists of a fibrous material in the form of continuous fibers impregnated with a composition predominantly comprising at least one polymer P2j, (j=1 to m, m being the number of reinforcement layers), said structure being devoid of an outermost layer and adjacent to the outermost layer of polyamide polymer composite reinforcement.

16. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein each sealing layer comprises the same type of polyamide.

17. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein each reinforcement layer comprises the same type of polymer.

18. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein each sealing layer comprises the same type of polyamide and each reinforcement layer comprises the same type of polymer.

19. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein it has a single sealing layer and a single reinforcement layer.

20. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein said structure further comprises at least one outer layer consisting of a fibrous material made of continuous glass fiber impregnated with a transparent amorphous polymer, said layer being the outermost layer of said multilayer structure.

21. The multilayer structure according to claim 13, wherein it corresponds to a pipe and further comprises at least one outer metal braid, said sealing layer being in contact with the hydrogen.

22. A method for manufacturing a multilayer structure as defined in claim 13, wherein it comprises a step of manufacturing a sealing layer by injection, extrusion, extrusion blow molding or rotational molding, the sealing layer consisting of a composition comprising at least one polyamide for preparing a multilayer structure intended for the transport, the distribution or the storage of hydrogen, said sealing layer satisfying a test for contaminants present in the hydrogen and extracted from said sealing layer after contact of the hydrogen with same, said test being carried out as defined in the standard CSA/ANSI CHMC 2:19, the total proportion of said contaminants extracted in the hydrogen being less than or equal to 3% by weight of the sum of the constituents of said composition.

23. The method for manufacturing a multilayer structure according to claim 22, wherein it comprises a prior step of washing the polyamide of the composition at least once with a system selected from a polar solvent, prior to the step of manufacturing said sealing layer by injection, extrusion or rotational molding.

24. The method for manufacturing a multilayer structure according to claim 22, wherein it comprises a step of filament winding of a reinforcement layer around the sealing layer.

Description

EXAMPLES

[0188] The following compositions were prepared according to techniques well known to a person skilled in the art for the composition of the sealing layer (1) of the structures of the invention (Table 2).

TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Composition I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 C1 C2 PA11 100%  99.7% 90% 89.7% 86% PA11/10T 70% 65% Plasticizer 0  0% 0 0 0 13% 10% Impact 0% 30%   0% 10% .sup. 10%  0% 35% modifier additives 0%  0%  0.3%  0%  0.3%  0%  0%
I1 to I2: compositions of the invention
C1 to C2: comparative compositions
PA11: PA11 is a polyamide 11 having an Mn (number-average molecular weight) of 45,000. The melting temperature is 190° C.; its melting enthalpy is 56 J/g.

PA11/10T: Rilsan HT (Arkema)

[0189] Plasticizer: BBSA (n-butylbenzenesulfonamide)
Impact modifier: Lotader® 4700 (50%)+Lotader® AX8900 (25%)+Lucalene® 3110 (25%)
Additives: stabilizers

[0190] The sealing layers (liner) of the invention comprising a sealing layer (1) are obtained by rotational molding of the sealing layer (liner) with the various compositions above at a temperature suited to the nature of the thermoplastic resin used.

[0191] The multilayer structures comprising a composite reinforcement made of epoxide resin or epoxide-based resin are obtained by a process of wet filament winding, which consists of winding carbon fibers around the liner, which fibers have been previously pre-impregnated in a liquid epoxide bath or a bath based on liquid epoxide. The tank is then polymerized in an oven for 2 hours.

[0192] The contaminants extracted in the hydrogen from the various sealing layers of the multilayer structures manufactured from the compositions above were quantified according to standard CSA/ANSI CHMC 2:19:

Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-11: <0.5%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-12: <0.5%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-13: <0.5%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-14: <0.5%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-15: <0.5%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-C1: >3%
Multilayer structure with sealing layer based on composition-C2: >3%