Power-to-gas technology plays a key role in the success of the energy transformation. This paper addresses issues related to the legal and technical regulations specifying the rules for adding hydrogen to the natural gas network. The main issue reviewed is the effects of the addition of hydrogen to natural gas on the durability of diaphragm gas meters. The possibility of adding hydrogen to the gas network requires confirmation of whether, within the expected hydrogen concentrations, long-term operation of gas meters will be ensured without compromising their metrological properties and operational safety. Methods for testing the durability of gas meters applied at test benches and sample results of durability tests of gas meters are presented. Based on these results, a metrological and statistical analysis was carried out to establish whether the addition of hydrogen affects the durability of gas meters over time. The most important conclusion resulting from the conducted study indicates that, for the tested gas meter specimens, there was no significant metrological difference between the obtained changes of errors of indications after testing the durability of gas meters with varying hydrogen content (from 0% to 15%).
STRESZCZENIE: W ostatnim czasie można zaobserwować rosnące zainteresowanie dodawaniem do sieci gazowej wodoru pochodzącego ze źródeł odnawialnych, tzn. technologią power-togas. Umożliwia ona przekształcenie wyprodukowanej energii elektrycznej do postaci wodoru i zmagazynowanie go w systemie gazowniczym. Technologia ta może stać się jednym z istotnych czynników zwiększenia udziału energii odnawialnej w całkowitym bilansie energetycznym. Skutkiem dodawania wodoru do gazu ziemnego będzie obecność w sieciach gazowych mieszaniny gazu ziemnego oraz wodoru, która siecią tą docierać będzie do odbiorców końcowych, w tym odbiorców w gospodarstwach domowych. Właściwości fizykochemiczne wodoru, takie jak np. gęstość właściwa czy lepkość, istotnie różnią się od właściwości fizykochemicznych składników gazu ziemnego, takich jak metan, etan, propan, butan, azot itd. W związku z powyższym właściwości mieszaniny gazowej po dodaniu do niej wodoru będą się znacznie różnić od właściwości obecnie stosowanego gazu ziemnego. Tym samym elementy systemu gazowniczego, a także odbiorniki gazu u odbiorców końcowych będą podlegać oddziaływaniu wodoru. Konieczne staje się zatem zapewnienie, że w granicach przewidywanych stężeń wodoru elementy systemu gazowniczego, a także odbiorniki gazu będą w stanie długotrwale pracować bez pogorszenia swych właściwości funkcjonalnych oraz zmniejszenia bezpieczeństwa technicznego. W niniejszym artykule omówiono wyniki dotychczasowych badań prowadzonych w INiG-PIB dotyczących wpływu mieszaniny gazu ziemnego i wodoru na: urządzenia gazowe użytku domowego oraz komercyjnego, rozliczenia i pomiary paliw gazowych, jakość paliw gazowych, gazomierze miechowe oraz reduktory średniego ciśnienia. Słowa kluczowe: power-togas , PtG, P2G, wodór ze źródeł odnawialnych, gaz ziemny, infrastruktura gazociągowa, urządzenia gazowe. ABSTRACT: Recently, there has been a growing interest in adding hydrogen from renewable sources to the gas network, i.e. Powerto-Gas technology. This technology makes it possible to convert the produced electrical power into hydrogen and to store it in the gas network. It may become one of the significant factors of increasing the share of renewable energy in the overall energy mix. The addition of hydrogen to natural gas will result in the presence of a mixture of natural gas and hydrogen in the gas networks through which it will reach end users, including household customers. The physicochemical properties of hydrogen, such as specific density or viscosity, differ significantly from those of natural gas components, such as methane, ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, etc. As a result, the properties of a gas mixture, after adding hydrogen, will be significantly different from those of the natural gas currently in use. Thus, both gas network components and gas appliances of end users will be exposed to hydrogen. It is therefore necessary to ensure long-period operation of gas network components and gas appliances, within the limits of anticipated hydrogen concentrations, without deterioration in the...
Hydrogen is increasingly receiving a primary role as an energy vector in ensuring the achievement of the European decarbonization goals by 2050. In fact, Hydrogen could be produced also by electrolysis of water using renewable sources, such as photovoltaic and wind power, being able to perform the energy storage function, as well as through injection into natural gas infrastructures. However, hydrogen injection directly impacts thermodynamic properties of the gas itself, such as density, calorific value, Wobbe index, sound speed, etc. Consequently, this practice leads to changes in metrological behavior, especially in terms of volume and gas quality measurements. In this paper, the authors present an overview on the impact of hydrogen injection in natural gas measurements. In particular, the changes in thermodynamic properties of the gas mixtures with different H2 contents have been evaluated and the effects on the accuracy of volume conversion at standard conditions have been investigated both on the theoretical point of view and experimentally. To this end, the authors present and discuss the effect of H2 injection in gas networks on static ultrasonic domestic gas meters, both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view. Experimental tests demonstrated that ultrasonic gas meters are not significantly affected by H2 injection up to about 10%.
Blending hydrogen into the natural gas infrastructure is becoming a very promising practice to increase the exploitation of renewable energy sources which can be used to produce “green” hydrogen. Several research projects and field experiments are currently aimed at evaluating the risks associated with utilization of the gas blend in end-use devices such as the gas meters. In this paper, the authors present the results of experiments aimed at assessing the effect of hydrogen injection in terms of the durability of domestic gas meters. To this end, 105 gas meters of different measurement capabilities and manufacturers, both brand-new and withdrawn from service, were investigated in terms of accuracy drift after durability cycles of 5000 and 10,000 h with H2NG mixtures and H2 concentrations of 10% and 15%. The obtained results show that there is no metrologically significant or statistically significant influence of hydrogen content on changes in gas meter indication errors after subjecting the meters to durability testing with a maximum of 15% H2 content over 10,000 h. A metrologically significant influence of the long-term operation of the gas meters was confirmed, but it should not be made dependent on the hydrogen content in the gas. No safety problems related to the loss of external tightness were observed for either the new or 10-year-old gas meters.
Słowa kluczowe: gazomierze miechowe, trwałość gazomierzy, skrajne temperatury otoczenia, wpływ temperatury otoczenia. The results of durability tests of diaphragm gas meters, obtained using different methodologies-comparative analysis The article presents a comparative analysis of durability test results of diaphragm gas meters obtained using normalized methods (described in the standard PN-EN 1359:2004 and in the OIML Recommendations R 137-1&2:2012), and a method contained in the draft of prEN 1359:2015 and also according to the author's testing methods developed in INiG-PIB. In applied test methods, the exposure factors were: working medium (natural gas or air), the type of flow rate (constant or with cyclical changes), ambient temperature (-25°C, 20°C and 55°C).
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