Welcome to H2C Safety Pipe, enabling safer and more cost-effective hydrogen transport and storage solutions.
Gas Pipes Leak
Addressing Hydrogen’s Unique Challenges
Gas pipelines are fundamental to our energy infrastructure. Historically, the natural gas industry has tolerated leaks as an inevitable cost of business and the industry is exempt from underground storage tank regulations that require double-wall containment and active monitoring. Recognition of methane’s potent greenhouse impact is shifting these perspectives somewhat, but with over 2,500,000 miles of installed pipelines in the U.S. alone, options are limited.
Hydrogen presents much more significant challenges due to its smaller molecular size, odorless and colorless properties, and nearly invisible flame, all of which make hydrogen leaks harder to detect and even more important to continuously monitor and control. And yet, unlike legacy methane systems, hydrogen pipeline networks are still in their infancy — giving us the opportunity to design for safety, sustainability, and accountability from the start.
We have a Solution
Dual Containment Piping, Inert Gas, Sensors and Controls
H2C Safety Pipe™ has pioneered a system to avoid leakage from future hydrogen pipelines. Our proprietary technology features a dual-containment design enhanced with inert sweep gas, advanced sensors, and automated response systems to detect and mitigate leakage before it can threaten public safety or the environment.
By using advanced materials, hydrogen pipes are corrosion-free, not subject to hydrogen embrittlement risk, and more cost-effective than traditional coated steel pipelines. H2C Safety Pipe™ technology also enables re-purposing of existing pipelines, reducing right-of-way cost, regulatory delays, and avoiding stranded assets.
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With Hydrogen, Leakage Control Is Not Optional
Once thought to be benign if leaked into the atmosphere, recent studies reveal that hydrogen is a potent indirect greenhouse gas. And who isn’t familiar with, and thinking about, the Hindenburg disaster when hydrogen is being seriously considered as a clean energy alternative?
Ask any expert and they’ll explain that when handled correctly, hydrogen is safer than gasoline and other fuels. But they also know that when mixed with air in a contained space, even very low concentration levels of hydrogen (40,000 ppm or greater) are highly explosive. Thus, not only to provide public confidence, but for absolute public safety, preventing and continuously monitoring for hydrogen leakage is critical.
flexible applications
Addressing Multiple Infrastructure Applications
Over the next few decades, to effectively decarbonize major industries like steel, cement, chemical and aluminum production, heavy-duty and long-haul transportation, and provide grid resilience, will require a massive investment in new infrastructure for hydrogen transport and storage.
Achieving this with the least disruption, fewest stranded assets, lowest cost, and requisite level of safety to protect people, property, and the environment, will involve multiple forms of installation. H2C Safety Pipe technology provides a solution for each of these applications.
Within New Construction
Placing a hydrogen delivery line inside an existing natural gas pipeline can save time and lower costs by using the existing pipe as the safety pipe. This results in superior economics to blending while assuring quality and safety.
In Existing Pipeline
Placing a hydrogen delivery line inside an existing natural gas pipeline can save time and lower costs by using the existing pipe as the safety pipe. This results in superior economics to blending while assuring quality and safety.
Inside Aged Pipelines
Placing a hydrogen delivery line inside an existing natural gas pipeline can save time and lower costs by using the existing pipe as the safety pipe. This results in superior economics to blending while assuring quality and safety.
Using Other Rights-of-Way
Placing a hydrogen delivery line inside an existing natural gas pipeline can save time and lower costs by using the existing pipe as the safety pipe. This results in superior economics to blending while assuring quality and safety.
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