Velocity design with hydrogen - Beta

Completed

Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Refining, transport and storage of oil and gas)

Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
SGN

Network Innovation Allowance

Ofgem

01 August 2023

01 February 2026

30 months

£6,554,978

Energy

South East

Project Contact, SGN

Project Contact, Northern Gas Networks
Project Contact, Cadent Gas
Project Contact, Wales and West Utilities

"This project is undertaking full-scale testing with the aim of validating models forerosion, vibration, noise, and particle transportation in hydrogen flow conditionsthat would likely exist in a converted natural gas network for the purpose ofcontributing to the heat transformation necessary to meet the 2030 and 2050emissions targets. The project meets the Heat challenge aims to ""produce insightsand findings which facilitate decision making for low carbon heating by the energynetworks, industry and government"".Project partners include all the gas distribution network operators (SGN, Cadent,NGN and WWU), National Gas Transmission, Institution of Gas Engineers andManagers (IGEM), and DNV. Collaboratively working with these project partners,we aim to understand how hydrogen network constraints can be minimised at thelowest economic cost.The energy network innovation for hydrogen networks has evolved in recent yearsfrom desktop studies to multiple large-scale tests, and several live trials, forexample Hydeploy, and proposed future trials such as H100 and the HydrogenVillage trials.The Discovery phase of the project established that there was insufficient datathat could be relied on to define suitable design standards for Hydrogen andHydrogen-Natural gas mixtures in UK gas pipes.The Alpha phase of this project was predominantly desktop based and includedthe following activities:erosion modellingparticle transport modellingvibration and noise modellinglaboratory scale tests to investigate possible synergistic hydrogen embrittlementand erosion

12/10/23