ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review of high-pressure storage vessels. Besides that, it included a case study about the design and analysis of stacking sequences for composite pressure vessels by optimization algorithms. The vessels were subjected to internal pressure causing stress and strain through the hoop, axial, and radial directions. Hydrogen has been rising as an alternative energy resource day by day, due to its bearing the highest energy density in terms of mass amongst all other energy sources. Additionally, hydrogen energy can solve two critical problems: high carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels and energy source shortage in transportation and residence. Stochastic optimization methods have been utilized in the literature to design optimum composite pressure vessels such as vessels with optimum stacking sequences, low cost and high burst pressure performance. The cylindrical part of Type III vessels is considered as a composition of the isotropic metallic liner and orthotropic composite layers.
