Hazards of hydrogen transport in the existing natural gas pipeline network
Abstract
The development of European economies will occur in parallel with efforts aiming to reduce the use of fossil fuels in powergeneration and transport. This has led to an increased interest in hydrogen as the energy carrier of the future. However,before hydrogen can be used efficiently on a large scale, a new hydrogen-based economy will have to be developed to servegas production, storage and transport needs. An alternative to what would be rather costly investment in new infrastructurecould be to use the existing network of gas pipelines by adding hydrogen to natural gas and transporting the mixture. Thenew solution should be considered in terms of research on the technological adaptation of the existing pipelines (appropriatefixtures and fittings, materials, pipeline geometry) as well as on possible consequences of a potential failure and the relatedserious hazards. The paper presents the results of an analysis of the effects of a jet fire arising due to an uncontrolledrelease of natural gas and its mixture with hydrogen from a pipeline. The impact of the variability in the gas and the pipelineparameters on the severity of the consequences is shown.References
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gas pipeline networks. a review of key issues, Tech. rep., National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (2013).
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using the existing natural gas system as catalyst, Final publishable
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of hydrogen compression and pipeline transportation with thermodynamics
and safety aspects, Energy (141) (2017) 2508–2518.
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hydrogen exposure on the mechanical properties of polymers
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of Pressure Vessels and Piping 89 (2012) 203–209.
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subsea pipeline design, International Journal of Pressure Vessels
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carbon dioxide and hydrogen by means of optimal safety valves spacing,
Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 33 (2015)
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Journal of Power Technologies 97 (2) (2017) 153–157.
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criteria for use in quantitative risk analysis of the hydrogen infrastructure,
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Published
2018-12-18
How to Cite
STOLECKA, Katarzyna.
Hazards of hydrogen transport in the existing natural gas pipeline network.
Journal of Power Technologies, [S.l.], v. 98, n. 4, p. 329–335, dec. 2018.
ISSN 2083-4195.
Available at: <https://papers.itc.pw.edu.pl/index.php/JPT/article/view/1363>. Date accessed: 21 nov. 2024.
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Section
Power Plant
Keywords
natural gas/hydrogen mixture, pipeline, hazard, jet fire
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