Hydrogen Flow Rig

The Hydrogen Flow Cell is being designed to combine with a Hiden HPR20 mass spectrometer designed to characterise the bulk flow properties of hydrogen through a 1m long sandstone core at elevated temperature and pressure.

Breakthrough curves can be used to determine: advective velocity; mechanical dispersion; molecular diffusion and sorption of hydrogen during mass transfer through porous reservoir sandstones.

The Hydrogen Flow Rig has been designed  to provide:

• 1m long, 38mm diameter fell sandstone core contained within gas tight foil, resin and stainless steel piping.
• Up to 1MPa gas pressure.
• Up to 60^oC rock temperature.
• Up to 60^oC injection gas temperature.
• Single and multiphase gas flow including hydrogen, nitrogen, noble gasses, SF₆ tracer and CO₂.
• Flow rates from 0.01ml/min to 10ml/min.
• Upstream, downstream and differential pressure measurement and logging.
• Gas sampling by Hiden HPR20 mass spectrometer.

The hydrogen rig is not currently functional as awaiting key components.

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