The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded a $5.7 million research contract to UCLA Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences on Pilot Testing and Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Targeted Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization. The Goal of the project is to develop the knowledge base and integrated assessment that will help natural gas utilities introduce hydrogen in the current California natural gas pipeline network, and therefore help California meet its decarbonization goals. The multidisciplinary research involves a number of other leading research centers and public and private sectors providing an additional match fund of over $1.4 million in support of the project.
“The project has a broad scope including extensive large-scale testing, modeling and simulation, and techno-economic analysis to assess the readiness of gas infrastructure for hydrogen blending, and use by the industry” said Professor Ali Mosleh, the project’s Principal Investigator, and Director of the UCLA Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. The project Co-PI is Prof. Vasilios Manousiouthakis, from Chemical Engineering Department.
The project draws from expertise in multiple departments at Samueli School of Engineering and Anderson School of Business, as well as teams form UCI, Sandia National Lab, DNV, and several California utilities, including SoCalGas, and PG&E.
