NATURALHY visits Spadeadam Test Site
Spadeadam, UK, 27 April 2006

On the 27th of April, 2006 NATURALHY visited the Spadeadam Test Site in the north of England where large scale safety experiments with hydrogen/natural gas mixtures are scheduled to take place in the following months.

For the requirements of the experiments, an 18m3 test facility is being constructed which will comprise of arrays of repeated obstacles and that can be configured to a wide range of blockage ratios. The experiments will allow to study the behaviour of accidental release of hydrogen/natural gas release from critical parts of the gas network and to obtain information on the consequences that may arise from such releases.

The experiments will be compared with available data from similar experiments involving natural gas or hydrogen only. Furthermore, the results will be compared with CFD models which will allow to establish the limits of existing mathematical models.

The experiments are led by Loughborough University and supported by Shell Hydrogen and Leeds University

For further information on the Spadeadam Test Site, please visit the following link http://www.spadeadam.biz/  
 

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