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INSIDE THE TESTING FACILITY

A HYDROGEN TRAIN TESTING FACILITY

home, so when you’re burning hydrogen brand new network in the UK, made I think Radius Systems has grown up
you won’t have to be concerned that of brand new materials of the type enough to have a moral perspective on
it’s burning properly. So from a safety we supply today. Hydrogen would life as much as a commercial
perspective, that is not an issue be created from renewable energy perspective, and I think we fully believe
anymore. From an environmental sources, from wind and solar energy, that no one single source or type of
perspective, it’s very good. Hydrogen is through electrolysis. One hundred per energy is going to solve the challenges
very promising. It’s not as scary as you cent hydrogen will be injected into a that we have. We feel it’s a sensible
think, and once you use it the right way network, bringing the new fuel source and practical part of the future energy
it’s very easy to get along with. to the local population. It will go ahead mix that we need, and we believe that
for construction later this year and we it’s practical to achieve the kind of goals
DM: Our own journey into hydrogen have helped to deliver the groundwork that people have.
started with the first project in the UK, to enable that to happen. I think what we wanted was to prove
called HyDeploy. This is a project to There will be other hydrogen that it is a viable pathway. It’s interesting
run hydrogen through a private gas opportunities. There are lots of that people are talking about a future in
network, which is part of the Keele people getting very interested in which polyethylene pipe systems will
University estate. It has a range of this and creating projects, but from be used, and hydrogen would be the
assets within it and what they were able a perspective of gas distribution in gas that they would convey. That’s the
to do is carry out a scientific study to terms of how it reaches most people, market that we sit in. You know, our core
show they can gradually increase the HyDeploy is a good starting point. H100 business is to make polyethylene pipes,
level of hydrogen content safely without and the Leeds H21 project that seek to to make the fitting systems to innovate in
people seeing any change. Some do conversion, these are all large scale, that area, to try and keep going with the
questions were asked of us as a supplier big thinking projects. times as societal demands change, and
at the time, so we became involved as With our history of over 50 years in to deliver the solutions that people want.
a technical support to the investigators the gas industry – we supplied the very Hydrogen is at the heart of it, but from our
of that project to understand how first polyethylene pipes in 1969 through perspective, so is polyethylene.
we could join onto pipes that had a our former DuPont heritage with our
hydrogen-methane blend. That was the Aldyl pipe system – we have the ability Radius Systems develops safe and
start of our journey into hydrogen. This to take some of those pipes back, put quality polyethylene pipeline components
led to the invitation to be involved in a them into the facilities that we now for the utilities and construction
bigger project called H100 (Hydrogen have, and say, “these could actually be industries. For more information visit
100). This is a project to build the first used for hydrogen in the future.” www.radius-systems.com

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