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European Gas Research Group: Collaborative R&D Network

Discover GERG's 50 years of gas industry R&D, collaborative projects, lobbying efforts, and strategic focus on gas technologies for a sustainable future.

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European Gas Research Group: Collaborative R&D Network

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  1. EUROPEAN GAS RESEARCH GROUP GROUPE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHES GAZIERES Enrique Palomino Bilbao GERG President

  2. TheEuropean Gas Research Group • 50 years of collaborative R&D on natural gas topics • Effective gas industry network for R&D information exchange • 24 members from 13 countries - all active in R&D • Large European reservoir of specialist knowledge • High quality research resource OGE EC-funded Projects DEO • CONRAD • DIGBUILD • VOGUE • MICROMAP • PRESENSE • LABNET • GIGA • COMBO • NATURALHY • ORFEUS • INTEG-RISK • GASQUAL• LNG DENSITOMETER

  3. GERG Activities • Information exchange • Collaborative R&D projects • Lobbying: • European Parliament • European Commission • GERG Academic Network

  4. Four Strategic Areas • Securing the European gas supply • Improving the safety and integrity of gas networks • Developing smart gas networks and gas uses & managing energy demand • Improving the sustainability of natural gas supply and use & future energy schemes

  5. Technologies for the Gas Industry of the Future • There are many important technologies and developments that we could talk about – emanating from GERG projects: • Advanced Gas Detection • LNG-Densimeter Development • Robots for autonomous pipeline inspection • Gas Heat pumps • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for pipeline surveillance

  6. Advanced Gas Detection

  7. LNG-Densimeter Development 7

  8. Autonomous pipeline inspection robots • Each robot inspects 2 km/day • Can achieve 20,000 km per year, using 30 robots • 10 km action range of robot • 10,000 docking stations

  9. Gas Heat pump Gas heat pumps offer a promising system for climate-friendly heating technology.

  10. UAV-based pipeline surveillance(Integ-Risk) • A UAV is: • a small plane, <12 kg • with autopilot flight control based on GPS and inertial sensors • normally flying below 300m (1000ft)

  11. Convergence of Power and Gas Infrastructure, Including Biomethane and Hydrogen NATURALHY What is the maximum amount of hydrogen that can be added to the natural gas system? 11

  12. NATURALHY • NATURALHY, an EC-funded project, examined the possibility of transporting hydrogen in the European natural gas network as a means of “greening the gas” • NATURALHY showed that the volume of hydrogen that may be added to the natural gas pipeline network is limited • However, an admixture of approx. 10% by volume is not critical in most cases • But...

  13. There is work to be done - NATURALHY 2? But there are three important cases, where further R&D is required: • modern gas turbines with premixed burners (a great number of manufacturers currently specify a limit value of 5%); • steel tanks in NGVs and CNG fuelling stations (the current limit value is 2%; but activities to increase the value are under way); • underground porous rock storage (necessary to determine a reliable limit value). This work will be addressed inter alia in a follow-up project which is currently being set up.

  14. Concluding Remarks • R&D is essential to the gas industry to meet our commitments to: • customers • the environment • It’s very important that GERG and its members anticipate the future and look beyond current industry problems • Collaborative R&D is vital, as it enables: • shared costs, shared expertise and widespread acceptance of results • industry to prepare for the worst eventualities

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