Development of a hydrogen and carbon dioxide flow meter

新冠肺炎的戏剧性效果唤醒了世界，唤醒了我们如何对待我们的星球。交通、能源、食品生产等都对我们的二氧化碳影响有贡献--石油和天然气被视为主要贡献者。我们需要改变我们的业务重点，在未来的能源转型中发挥我们的作用。我们的技术非常适用于氢气行业，我们可以将产品添加到我们的产品组合中，以服务于这个新兴和不断增长的市场。该项目的目标是提高现有流量计的性能，这在石油和天然气行业中广受推崇。该装置已经具有很高的创新性，是一种自我调节的气体流量计，它可以自动调整其工作流量范围，以匹配被测量气体的流速。尽管如此，在新兴的全球氢气经济中，预期的改进将为氢气和二氧化碳气体的更可靠和更准确的流量计量提供一种设备。我们希望进行摩擦学和密封件渗透性测试，调查聚合物和/或金属密封件及其配合表面的使用情况。将进行流环校准、侵蚀研究和计算流体动力学研究，将这些流量计的性能与天然气的性能进行比较。氢气是宇宙中最小、最丰富的元素。由于其分子尺寸较小，它在物理泄漏途径、冶金和渗入密封剂方面带来了挑战，改变了密封剂的物理性质，如硬度、孔隙率和占据体积。为了验证自动调节流量计在一段时间内保持气密性和安全性，我们将对当前的密封系统进行评估和测试，以确定与天然气相比，在使用H2和CO2的情况下需要对密封系统进行哪些改进。我们将研究H2和CO2对仪表密封件、部件涂层、衬底材料的直接影响，以及密封件和配套部件在H2和CO2存在时的表现。通过调整现有产品，我们将减少成本、人员干预、安装占地面积并提高安全性、准确性和寿命，同时允许氢气发生器享受石油和天然气用户所需的相同宽流量范围。在这些应用中，安全是至关重要的，其中密封件和密封面对设备的压力完整性、长期气密性和寿命至关重要。通过提供更低的安装成本和更长的寿命，我们可以帮助运营商降低资本和运营成本，为这个新兴行业的经济生存能力增加一小部分但很重要的一部分。我们的学习还将有助于向我们现有的客户提供更可靠的设备，从而我们可以发展我们的公司，提高我们雇用更多员工的能力，并支持当地经济。

The dramatic effect of Covid-19 has been a wakeup call to the world and how we treat our planet. Transport, energy, food production etc all contribute to our CO2 impact - oil and gas is seen as a major contributor. We need to change the focus of our business to play our part in the energy transition for the future. Our technology is very adaptable for the hydrogen industry and we can add products to our portfolio to serve this emerging and growing market.The objective of this project is to enhance the performance of an existing flowmeter, which is widely respected in the oil and gas industry. The device is already highly innovative, being a self-adjusting gas flow meter, which automatically adjusts its operating flow range to match the flow rate of the gas being measured. Notwithstanding, the desired improvements will provide a device for even more reliable and accurate flow metering of hydrogen and carbon dioxide gases, in the emerging global hydrogen economy. We wish to undertake tribological and seal permeability testing, investigating the use of polymer and/or metallic seals and their mating surfaces. Flow loop calibration, erosion studies and computational fluid dynamic studies will be undertaken to compare the meters performance against that of natural gas.Hydrogen is the smallest and most abundant element in the universe. Because of its small molecular size, it presents challenges in terms of physical leak paths, metallurgy and permeation into sealing compounds, changing their physical properties such as hardness, porosity and occupied volume. To verify that the self-adjusting flow meter remains gas-tight and safe over time, we will undertake assessment and testing into the current sealing system to ascertain what sealing system improvements will be required for operations with H2 and CO2, compared to natural gas. We will examine the direct effects of H2 and CO2 on meter seals, component coatings, substrate materials and how the seals and mating components behave in the presence of H2 and CO2\.By adapting the existing product, we will reduce costs, personnel intervention, installation footprint and increase safety, accuracy and longevity, all while allowing hydrogen generators to enjoy the same wide flow range which oil and gas users demand. Safety is crucial in each of these applications, where seals and sealing surfaces are critical to the pressure integrity and long-term gas tightness and longevity of the equipment. By offering reduced installation costs and increased longevity, we can help operators to reduce capital and operational costs adding a small but important part to economic viability of this emerging industry.Our learnings will also help to offer more even more reliable equipment to our existing customers, so we can grow our company, increase our ability to employ higher numbers of people and support the local economy.