Welcome to H2C Safety Pipe, enabling safer and more cost-effective hydrogen transport and storage solutions.
Gas pipes leak. Hydrogen requires a better solution.
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.
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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.
Purpose-built Hydrogen Pipeline Architectures
Optimized for Different Safety, Infrastructure, and Economic Requirements
H2C Safety Pipe has developed three purpose-built pipeline architectures to address different combinations of requirements. The appropriate architecture can be selected based on site conditions, regulatory requirements, available infrastructure and rights-of-way, and the level of containment and monitoring appropriate to the application.
Together, these architectures include high-assurance dual-containment systems for sensitive locations, to solutions that leverage existing underground infrastructure, and cost-optimized pipelines for applications where simplicity, durability, and lower installed cost are primary objectives.
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
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.
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Let’s Discuss Your Hydrogen Transport Needs
Whether you are planning new pipeline infrastructure, exploring the reuse of existing pipelines or rights-of-way, or evaluating options for a specific hydrogen transport or distribution requirement, our team can help assess how H2C Safety Pipe™ technology may address safety and community concerns while reducing the delivered cost of hydrogen.
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