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Webinar recording – In-situ coatings for hydrogen transmission – retrofitting steel pipelines

December 3, 2024

Tuesday 3 December 2024

Prof Sandra Kentish presented on the challenge of addressing hydrogen embrittlement in steel pipelines with innovative coating solutions. Australia has thousands of kilometres of buried steel pipelines currently used for transporting natural gas. If repurposed for hydrogen transmission, these pipelines need to mitigate the effects of hydrogen embrittlement. As part of Future Fuels CRC’s research, the team at the University of Melbourne has been developing  internal coatings for steel pipelines. The coatings would be cost-effective and capable of being applied in-situ to buried pipelines.

The research encompassed three stages focused on evaluating the hydrogen permeability, flow properties and hydrogen radical scavenging ability of different coating materials. The promising results underscore the potential of these coatings and the opportunities they could offer the future pipeline industry.

The full webinar recording is now available in the Members’ Area and research reports are now available to Future Fuels CRC participants at:

https://www.futurefuelscrc.com/project/retrofitting-pipelines-by-in-situ-coating-rp3-4-01/