Safe hydrogen injection management at network-wide level: towards European gas sector transition
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Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
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Summary
This topic aims to define comprehensive technical information, standard protocols for the managing of a multi-gas network and give scientific-based evidence in order to help stakeholders towards the development of effective regulation and technical standards, network repurposing and modernisation investments.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should also support the aims of the Hydrogen and Decarbonised Gas Market Package which provides the regulatory framework within which future gas networks will operate. Proposals should address the management and control of transients of composition of natural gas and hydrogen mixtures for safe end use. In particular:
- Injection of hydrogen in existing gas grids can lead to a heterogeneous quality delivered to end-users. Quality variation should be predicted and controlled and injection strategies of hydrogen in the gas grid are needed.
Modelling should identify strategies for optimal injection points and gas network control, to evaluate pure or blended hydrogen injection strategies and to perform gas quality tracking and control. The project should analyse these issues in view of the intersectoral integration through power-to-hydrogen. Both gas distribution and transmission networks should be considered. On the other hand, it is necessary to identify key technologies for quality tracking and the ones that are able to subsequently mitigate quality variation in the natural gas network, fully integrated with a dedicated ICT infrastructure for the digitalisation of the sector.
Proposals should provide guidance to assist the injection of hydrogen in the gas infrastructure across Europe, consistently highlighting the new issues, the technical and administrative barriers and gaps by using a clear methodology that will give the basis to the definition of EU technical standards, which should include also the ICT protocols. In addition, proposals are strongly encouraged to address the following activities:
- Analysis of delivered gas quality impacts on repurposed and new pipelines.
Proposals should identify and target the relevant standard(s) at the scope and activities should envisage links and synergies with existing platforms and/or projects as well as means of collaboration with similar activities ongoing internationally. Proposals are encouraged to include a formal standardisation body within the consortium.
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Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
For all topics in this Work Programme Clean Hydrogen JU shall have the right to object to transfers of ownership of results, or to grants of an exclusive licence regarding results, if:
(a) the beneficiaries which generated the results have received Union funding;
(b) the transfer or licensing is to a legal entity established in a non-associated third country; and
(c) the transfer or licensing is not in line with Union interests. The grant agreement shall contain a provision in this respect.