Gas Mixer for Hydrogen Blending In Natural Gas Pipelines - Pietro Fiorentini

TARGET OF THE PROJECT

Hydrogen experimentation: New requirements of transport and distribution gas network.

Description of the Application.

Hydrogen will represent one of the key players in the challenge to meet the net zero targets in the fight against the climate emergency. It can provide long-term energy storage for the electric power sector, fuel for heavy-duty transportation, heat for hard-to abate industry sector, and, on top of that, it can be produced from water and renewable sources.

In the next few years, the carbon-emitting natural gas network will progressively switch to hydrogen, which doesn’t produce greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when burned: instead, it yields water.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the gas infrastructure will face an extensive transformation during the next years by progressively reducing the volumes of transported fossil fuel, and by accepting greater and greater amounts of hydrogen blended with natural gas. This will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and, at the same time, will significantly change the physical-chemical properties of the gas mixture that is transported through the pipelines, in particular its energy content per unit volume.

Pietro Fiorentini has recently built its new laboratory for hydrogen experimentation, located within its headquarters in Arcugnano (Vicenza). It will be a place where research and industrial development will meet to accelerate technological innovation with the aim of becoming a hub of excellence.

Advanced Technologies research group in Pietro Fiorentini is an interdisciplinary team devoted to developing new solutions for the upcoming new requirements of transport and distribution gas networks. The team is mainly focused on exploring new technologies to improve the efficiency of gas infrastructure and to leverage energy transition towards alternative and green fuels.

Benefits and Savings.

MCQ Instruments provided an effective solution for mimicking different mixtures of natural gas with controlled amounts of hydrogen that are representative of the forthcoming blends of the future gas network. Gas blender 100 plus allowed to produce hundreds of distinct combinations of the main constituents of the gas mixture helping to assess and characterize the effect they have on the new tools under development.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The history of Pietro Fiorentini represents an Italian success story about a company that was able to conquer the world. After all, for those of us whose mission it is to overcome any and all barriers and achieve objectives that seem impossible, expansion is a natural instinct. This has been the case since 1940, when the company was established, with constant growth that today makes us a Group with over 2,800 employees spread across more than 40 international locations, with a strategic commercial presence in more than 100 countries worldwide.

MAIN BENEFITS

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  COST AND SPACE SAVINGS. Our Gas Mixers offer a simple solution. Say goodbye to expensive, challenging-to-store, slow-to-deliver pre-mixed cylinders. With our easy-to-use gas mixers and software, create your perfect gas mixtures effortlessly. Just grab a pure gas cylinder, click a few buttons, and voila! Custom gas mixtures tailored to your needs at any time, hassle-free. Cost Saving: Approximately 80%. Time Saving: Approximately 60%
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  SUCCESSFUL ACHIEVEMENT. The MCQ gas blender is used to produce hundreds of distinct combinations of the main constituents of the gas mixture helping to assess and characterize the effect they have on the new tools under development, in a much easier way, saving a large amount of costs and time.
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  EASY TO USE. Our Gas Mixers offer an easy-to-use and FULLY AUTOMATED solution. No specific skills are required to start creating your Gas Mixtures using our Touch Display or PC software. Fast, stable, and accurate, they assure top performances even when managing low flow rates.
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  AUTOMATION AND FLEXIBILITY. Save and recall your different gas mixtures. Create your gas mixing program by setting a sequence of gas mixing, for a certain time (sec, min, hours) with/without pause and cycles.
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  HIGH ACCURACY ON LOW FLOW AND NO CUT-OFF. Unlike (MFCs) with a cut-off of at least 2-10%, our solution stands out. With our advanced technology, we can precisely control flows from as low as 0.1% of the full scale up to 100%, ensuring impeccable management even for flows below 500 ml/min. This sets us apart from traditional MFCs, which cannot match the same level of precision and reliability.
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  FLOW STABILITY. Thanks to our revolutionary method every gas flow has a great stability making possible to have a high repeteability also for lower flow-range.

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