“The tests will be carried out both in the ZeroLab hydrogen laboratories and in TECNALIA’s Kubik experimental building, which will serve as real controlled validation spaces”
TECNALIA is leading a Basque consortium to develop innovative technology that ensures the safety of green hydrogen infrastructure
As part of the SEGURh2 initiative, TECNALIA is developing advanced predictive models to detect critical situations in advance and understand their behaviour, such as the spread of leaks, to ensure the safety of green hydrogen infrastructure: TECNALIA analyses risk scenarios and develops models to simulate and predict potential impacts.
TECNALIA is also developing intelligent sensor technology to detect hydrogen leaks in order to know when hydrogen sensors reach the end of their useful life, and thus create active monitoring systems: hydrogen diffusion models are established on the basis of experimental parameters and criteria for the implementation of safe infrastructure that is capable of anticipating and responding quickly to incidents.
The tests will be carried out both in the ZeroLab hydrogen laboratories and in TECNALIA’s Kubik experimental building, which will serve as real controlled validation spaces.
Green hydrogen testing infrastructure
TECNALIA’s expert in fire and explosion safety, Fernando Morente, explains that “this project will generate scientific and technological knowledge to understand how hydrogen leaks spread in both open and closed environments, and will lay the foundations for the development of safety regulations. TECNALIA has a pioneering testing infrastructure in Europe that enables hydrogen leak analysis under different operating conditions and the creation of real controlled environments to improve the efficiency of sensorisation and the validation of numerical models”.
SEGURH2 is a project funded by the Department of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Basque Government (ELKARTEK 2024 Programme) and has the following partners: IKOR Technology Centre, the University of Mondragón, the UPV/EHU, and the TEKNIKER and BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics research centres.
