EN 17339:2024

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