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

Enrique Palomino Bilbao

GERG President

EUROPEAN GAS RESEARCH GROUP

GROUPE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHES GAZIERES

TThe European Gas Research GroupEuropean Gas Research Group

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50 years of collaborative R&D on natural gas topics 50 years of collaborative R&D on natural gas topics

Effective gas industry network for R&D information Effective gas industry network for R&D information

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24 members from 13 countries - all active in R&D 24 members from 13 countries - all active in R&D

Large European reservoir of specialist knowledgeLarge European reservoir of specialist knowledge

High quality research resourceHigh quality research resource

EC-funded Projects

DEO • CONRAD • DIGBUILD • VOGUE • MICROMAP • PRESENSE • LABNET • GIGA • COMBO • NATURALHY • ORFEUS • INTEG-RISK • GASQUAL• LNG DENSITOMETER

GERG Activities

Information exchange

Collaborative R&D projects

Lobbying:

European Parliament

European Commission

GERG Academic Network

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Four Strategic Areas

1. Securing the European gas supply

2. Improving the safety and integrity of gas networks

3. Developing smart gas networks and gas uses & managing energy demand

4. Improving the sustainability of natural gas supply and use & future energy schemes

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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

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Advanced Gas Detection

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LNG-Densimeter Development

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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

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Gas Heat pump

Gas heat pumps offer a promising

system for climate-friendly heating

technology.

UAV-based pipeline surveillanceUAV-based pipeline surveillance (Integ-Risk)

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A UAV is:

•a small plane, <12 kg

•with autopilot flight control based on GPS

and inertial sensors

•normally flying below 300m (1000ft)

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?

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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...

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.

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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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Concluding Remarks