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.

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H2C Safety Pipe™

With Hydrogen,

Safety 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.

Process

Tailored Support

Our support process is flexible and H2C can be as involved as much or little as you need us to be given the stage and timing of your project. Together with a growing number of partners, H2C Safety Pipe can provide a turnkey solution, including design, installation, operation and maintenance. Or we can support your local engineering firm or simply license you to use our technology.

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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.

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

Within New Construction

Whether laying a hydrogen pipe inside a trench or in a dedicated utility vault, H2C Safety Pipe assures that hydrogen leakage is 100% contained and subject to 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring for both control and long-term integrity.

In Existing Pipeline

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

Inside Aged Pipelines

Thousands of miles of aging steel pipe exist that lack the integrity to contain even low-pressure inert gas, much less hydrogen. H2C Safety Pipe enables these pipelines to be repurposed for H2 transport and distribution.

Using Other Rights-of-Way

Using Other Rights-of-Way

H2C Safety Pipe provides a way to effectively use storm drains, sanitary sewer lines, tunnels, decommissioned pipelines, and culverts to safely transport hydrogen without digging up local streets and roadways.