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Metrology Partnership project wins best poster award

A renewable hydrogen pipeline

The poster was presented as part of the 2024 GAS Analysis event

There is an urgent need to decarbonise the European energy grid through the development and uptake of renewable, carbon-neutral energy sources. One of the pillars of the EU Green Deal is the phased replacement of natural gas with hydrogen in areas like transport, electricity generation and industry. While hydrogen can be integrated into the existing gas network, this requires the development of new infrastructure, sensors for monitoring and traceable measurements for leak detection.

Metrology Partnership project “Metrology for the hydrogen supply chain” (21GRD05 Met4H2) is providing novel and improved measurement methods and standards for the safe application of hydrogen flow measurement, quality assessment and custody transfer.

Poster Award

As part of the GAS Analysis 2024 event, project member Roel Beelen (VSL) presented a poster entitled “Matrix influence on the analysis of sulfur-containing compounds in hydrogen enriched natural gas and hydrogen with GC-SCD” which won the event’s Best Poster Award. This poster showcased the work of the Met4H2 project, in particular the first results of work on the sensitivity of sulfur analysis with respect to the gas matrix (methane, methane/hydrogen and hydrogen). This work has concluded that the effect on sulfur analysis is great enough to affect reference material production and certification but is not significant to measurements made in the field.

Project coordinator Adriaan van der Veen (VSL) has said about the work of the project,

“The insensitivity of the sulfur analysis method of natural gas, hydrogen and blends is encouraging for industrial applications, as it shows that with current equipment and methods odorant levels can be monitored in these gases, enabling the safe distribution and use in built areas.”

This Metrology Partnership project has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed by the European Union Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and from the Participating States.

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