SGN has selected flow control solutions specialist Oxford Flow, to help prove the hydrogen-readiness of existing gas network infrastructure. The companies will work together as part of SGN’s LTS Futures project, which is verifying the compatibility of Great Britain’s local transmission system (LTS) with hydrogen gas.
Oxford Flow will provide innovative hydrogen-ready gas pressure regulators (IM-S) which are smaller and lighter than natural gas equivalents. They’ll be used to stress test decommissioned gas pipelines with 100% hydrogen. The innovative IM series regulators are designed to make the retrofitting of existing gas systems easier and reduce future maintenance.
Later this year SGN’s LTS Futures team will join forces with Oxford Flow’s field operatives to test samples of decommissioned pipe at an industry research and testing facility in Spadeadam in Cumbria.
The test results will inform the next stage of the LTS Futures project – a first-of-its-kind live hydrogen repurposing trial and demonstration using a decommissioned pipeline at Grangemouth next year.
