SafePtX – Sensorer som sikkerhedskomponenter i PtX industrien

Hydrogen plays a key role in Power-to-X solutions to produce eFuels. Safety in the handling of hydrogen is, however, a major concern; When hydrogen is produced electrolytically, hydrogen and oxygen gas mixtures are created which pose a considerable threat to both equipment and personnel. The trace gas concentra-tions must therefore continuously be monitored to enable prompt shut down of production facilities if threshold values are exceeded.

In this project, a novel sensor type for safety process monitoring of hydrogen is developed and demon-strated for applications such as electrolysis systems. The benefits of this new sensor type include long-term stability and internal diagnostics based on signal redundancy. This will enable increased system uptime and thereby higher productivity of electrolysis systems. Furthermore, the ability of the sensors to measure di-rectly in gas process streams will greatly reduce the complexity of existing gas monitoring systems, where gas conditioning and handling before measurements significantly adds to the system cost. The overall ben-efit of the sensors is therefore a significant reduction in the cost of producing hydrogen.

This project builds upon SulfiLoggers success achieved through participation in a previous EUDP project.