Learnings

Outcomes

It is not possible to provide any quantified benefits from the project as it has not yet progressed past the design phase. It’s expected that lessons will be drawn from the installation phase, expected to be completed over Q3 and early Q4 2025, that will inform the future installation of these sensors on the NTS. 

Further benefits, including full performance and analysis will come once the testing is complete and project nears closure. At this point it will be possible to quantify some of the benefits. Benefits will not only include an analysis of the sensor’s performance, but studies of their application and installation, as detailed in WP4 of the project scope. The full timeline for these benefits will be known once the Deblending project schedule is understood, the working assumption is for project closure early 2026.           

Lessons Learnt

This project is still in the design phase, so it is difficult to draw extensive lessons from the work thus far. However, the work carried out for the market scan (WP1) - for which NGT Gas Quality SME’s defined the criteria required and DNV carried out a market analysis - is a useful assessment in itself. It lays out the current state of the hydrogen fast-response sensor market and can be used to assess the overall development of the technology, and applications of relevant sensing techniques.