SHIMMER

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Safe Hydrogen Injection Modelling and Management for European gas network Resilience

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To accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy while exploiting existing infrastructure, hydrogen can be injected to the natural gas network. However, the there are many technical and regulatory gaps that should be closed and adaptations and investments to be made to assure that multi-gas networks across Europe will be able to operate in a reliable and safe way while providing a highly controllable gas quality and required energy demand. Recently, the European Committee for Standardization concluded the impossibility of setting a common limiting value for hydrogen into the European gas infrastructure recommending a case-by-case analysis. In addition to this, there are still uncertainties related to material integrity on pipelines and networks components with regards to a reduced lifetime in presence of hydrogen. Existent results from previous and ongoing projects on the hydrogen readiness of grid components should be summarized in a systematic manner together with the assessment of the existent T&D infrastructure components at European level to provide stakeholders with decision support and risk reduction information to drive future investments and the development of regulations and standards. SHIMMER project aims to enable a higher integration and safer hydrogen injection management in multi-gas networks by contributing to the knowledge and better understanding of hydrogen projects, their risks, and opportunities. The project is being carried out by thirteen partners: SINTEF, BAM, ENAGAS, TECNALIA, GASSCO, GAZ-SYSTEM, GERG, INRETE, INIG, POLITO,TNO, REDEXIS, SNAM. SHIMMER project has received funding from the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research.

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