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Home > Impact > Funded Projects > Full-scale Testing of Legacy Pipeline Materials for the Purpose of Retrofitting Existing Natural Gas Pipeline Networks for Hydrogen Service
The results of this testing will provide experimentally backed technical evidence of the impact of hydrogen on vintage pipelines and its potential for pipe defects. These results will be disseminated to standards and guidelines as well as for organizations to incorporate in new and revised standards to guide Canadian, US, and European operators for the addition of hydrogen into a natural gas pipeline.
Conducted by the PRCI Emerging Fuels Institute with C-FER Technologies, this project will lay the groundwork for understanding the impact of hydrogen on defects in existing pipelines. It includes several small-scale tests to characterize selected material types and vintage specimens extracted from legacy pipeline systems. A limited number of large-scale tests on these pipe specimens will be conducted to provide an initial assessment of the potential impacts that defects such as cracks, corrosion wall loss, dents, laminations, bends/buckles and local hard zones could have on pipelines operating with hydrogen.