ABOUT THE PROJECT

Clean hydrogen produced at scale from geologic sources or using renewable energy and water can reduce emissions across hard-to-abate sectors like shipping, fertilizer and steel production, and airplanes. However, inadequate hydrogen transportation infrastructure is a recurring challenge. Leveraging pipelines currently used for natural gas would be the simplest solution, but hydrogen can make the steel pipes brittle and cause catastrophic failures. Replacing or deploying new infrastructure is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.

Arculus Solutions is developing a hydrogen-barrier coating and application process that will enable existing steel-based natural gas pipelines and other infrastructure to safely transport clean hydrogen. This coating will prevent hydrogen from reaching the steel and enable safe transportation through existing infrastructure, accelerating the adoption of hydrogen as a clean fuel across industries.

Arculus Solutions’s technology would allow today’s pipeline infrastructure to decarbonize at scale without expensive replacement or retrofit. Because the hydrogen-barrier coating can also work with pure hydrogen, its implementation can allow the transition from natural gas to pure hydrogen and decarbonize traditional fossil fuel networks.