Equipment

With the massive increase in H₂ facility projects announced, robust equipment and services are needed urgently to ensure the safety and reliability of H₂ production, transport, storage and distribution.

The May H₂Tech Spotlight highlights new technologies to aid the global H₂ sector, featuring equipment such as laser spectroscopy to detect and quantify H₂ concentrations as small as 10 parts per billion, a linear motor-driven reciprocating compressor and technology that converts liquified natural gas into H₂.

TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has secured £950,000 from Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation, to build the world’s first national standard liquid/dense phase CO₂ calibration facility.

In this episode, H₂Tech spoke with Cory Marcon, Industry Manager for Power and Energy at Endress+Hauser, about the quality requirements of water and preparations that must be considered to produce green H₂, different water requirements based on the electrolyzer technology, technologies available for critical measurements of green H₂ and much more.

DNV has expanded its research laboratory in Singapore with new testing equipment for the safety assessments of H₂ transport and storage facilities.

To support the use of H₂ as a climate-friendly energy carrier, Hengst has developed a modular set of various filtration solutions for fuel cells.

Dow has selected Linde as its industrial gas partner for the supply of clean H₂ and nitrogen for its proposed net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.

The H₂ start-up water stuff & sun is developing a technology that for the first time combines safe and easy storage with the direct use of green energy. The core component is a microvalve system consisting of several subcomponents.

Technip Energies and Casale announce a new partnership to jointly license oxidative reforming-based technologies: autothermal reforming and partial oxidation technologies for the blue H₂ market.

Three areas tend to be particularly vulnerable when it comes to land mobile radio communications for H₂ processing applications: turnarounds, disaster-based outages and dead zones can be weak links in otherwise strong networks.

Cranfield Aerospace Solutions welcomes Evolito, a UK technology innovator, onboard as the motor and inverter supplier for its H₂-powered aircraft demonstrator, Project Fresson. Evolito joins Reaction Engines and Ricardo as technology collaborators on Project Fresson, showcasing the UK innovation that is redefining the aviation industry.

Destinus has been awarded grants for two projects worth a total of €26.7 MM by the Spanish Government to expand H₂ propulsion capabilities.