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Current Highlights
The Highlights
section provides montlhy information on the
latest progress and development within the
Naturalhy project. Here you can find
details on:
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Papers and
presentations that have
been presented;
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Deliverables
that have been achieved;
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Reports that
have been completed;
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Results that are
significant/interesting (without giving away
anything that is confidential);
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Changes in
personnel;
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and many more
The current month's
highlights is presented in this page. Current
and previous highlight news are also available
in the Archive
in PDF format.
March & April 2008
WP2: SAFETY
An extensive
programme of experiments has been completed at
Loughborough University to measure the ignition
energy of methane, hydrogen and mixtures of
methane and hydrogen. The data has been analysed
and a correlation developed which enables the
prediction of the minimum ignition energy for
any methane/hydrogen mixture within the
flammable range. This has been validated against
data in the literature for methane and hydrogen.
A report will be prepared soon and also a
publication for the literature.
WP3: DURABILITY
Results from
measurements by TNO indicate that the resistance
to hydrogen for the weld is the same as for the
base metal, this was not expected.
The results from the
fracture toughness tests on the pipeline
materials indicate that there is no significant
effect on embrittlement for 100% hydrogen.
However the results from fatigue tests indicate
that the max allowable level of hydrogen for
modern pipeline steels is limited to lower
values.
WP4: INTEGRITY
The final versions
of two reports are now available.
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"Weld repair of
hydrogen charged X52" and
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“Principles of
resource allocation”
The report
“Sensitivity Analysis, Knowledge of Defect
Criticality” is currently being updated based on
the latest material information from WP3.
WP7: DISSEMINATION
It has been agreed
with MEPs that a NATURALHY presentation will be
made to the prestigious European Parliamentary
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
(ITRE).
The date has been set at 3rd July.
WP8: COORDINATION
A PEC meeting was
held in Brussels, hosted by GERG, to discuss:
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the planning of
the final period for NATURALHY;
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the NATURALHY
workshop at the IGRC 2008;
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and prepare
arrangements for the Full Consortium and the
WP meetings.
A meeting with the
Technical Officer for NATURALHY was attended by
Dave Pinchbeck and Gjalt Tiekstra to discuss the
procedure related to the request for an
extension of the project duration.
A declaration to agree to a 6 month extension of
the project was prepared and sent to all
partners. All partners agreed to assent to an
extension.
Preparation of the fourth annual report has
started.
Abstracts for the WHEC2008, IGRC2008 and the
IHC2008 have been submitted.
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