Advanced testing services for hydrogen
Experience innovation with our modern and cutting-edge laboratories
Our ΔH Laboratory
Our state-of-the-art facility pushes the boundaries of hydrogen storage and transportation, ensuring the highest safety and efficiency standards. Built in 2017, our lab tests materials and full-scale components for hydrogen storage at pressures up to 1,000 bar. Located in purpose-built facilities, the lab offers remote operation and automated procedures.
Our key services:
- Advanced Material Characterization: We offer comprehensive testing services, including tensile, SSRT, fatigue, and fracture mechanics testing in autoclaves. Our tests cover different conditions (20°C to 150°C, up to 1,000 bar, and various gas compositions) to ensure your materials are hydrogen-ready.
- KIH Testing Excellence: As one of the few labs recognized by ASME B31.12, we specialize in KIH testing to verify the suitability of linepipe materials for hydrogen service. Our containment camera and autoclaves provide precise and reliable results.
- Innovative Fracture Mechanics Testing: Utilizing potential drop crack growth monitoring systems, we deliver highly sensitive crack initiation and propagation monitoring in high-pressure hydrogen environments.
- Ultra-High Porosity Material Characterization: Our HPcT test unit is at the forefront of enhancing storage capacity. We characterize adsorbing materials to optimize performance without increasing pressure.
- Comprehensive Full-Scale Component Testing: From vessels and cylinders to tubes, we conduct rigorous filling/emptying cycles, defect testing, and valve/fitting assessments to ensure your components meet the highest standards.
Partnering with the University of Calabria, Delta H Lab is committed to pioneering hydrogen research and delivering top-tier testing services.
Combustion Laboratory (Dalmine - Italy)
The laboratory is dedicated to developing and testing industrial combustion systems, including CFD modeling, testing on actual burners/appliances, control system development, on-site assessment, monitoring, and support, as well as turbine blade evaluation and functional coating applications.
Our key services:
- Advanced Combustion System Characterization: We test gaseous fuel combustion systems up to 3.0 MW, including side, roof, regenerative, and recuperative burners, as well as ceramic regenerators. We handle syngas of any composition, hydrogen-natural gas blends, and 100% hydrogen.
- Comprehensive Pollutant Monitoring: Our facility monitors oxygen, CO, CO2, and NOx emissions, ensuring compliance with environmental standards.
- Versatile Testing Facilities: We offer a modular furnace for burners above 0.75 MW to 3.0 MW and a combustion chamber for smaller burners below 0.75 MW. Our decompression station supports fuel blends fed by tank trucks.
- Thermal Fatigue & Quenching: Our experimental facility conducts thermal fatigue and quenching tests on an industrial scale, with flexible systems for air, water, or air/water nebulization. We monitor sample temperatures up to 1,300°C using thermocouples and infrared cameras.
- Descaling Pilot Plant: We perform high-temperature surface conditioning with controlled oxidizing conditions and high-pressure water descaling. Our facility supports flow rates up to 132 l/min at pressures up to 400 bar, with various nozzle types and geometrical dispositions.
Materials & Components Laboratory (Rome - Italy)
Our state-of-the-art facility offers comprehensive full-scale testing services for pipelines and components, with high standards and performance in various environments. With advanced equipment and expert technicians, we provide thorough assessments and innovative solutions tailored to your needs.
Our key services:
- Pressure Containment Assessment: Hydraulic tests up to 2,000 bar to evaluate the pressure containment capabilities of pipeline sections, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
- High-Pressure Collapse Testing: External chambers designed to comply with ISO/TR 10400 and API TR 5C3 standards, allowing high-pressure collapse tests on pipes of various diameters.
- Environmentally and Microbiologically Assisted Cracking: Investigation of pipeline susceptibility to embrittlement due to hydrogen, using techniques such as pressure cycling, cathodic protection, and NDT inspection.
- Ductile Fracture Propagation Control: Burst tests using hydraulic jack systems or explosive charges to assess fracture propagation behavior under high-pressure conditions.
- Drop Weight Tear Tests (DWTT): Evaluation of fracture toughness of pipeline materials at low temperatures, ensuring reliability in harsh environments.
- Four-Point Bend Testing: Equipment capable of handling pipes up to 56” in diameter, applying internal pressures up to 1,000 bar to test the mechanical integrity of full-length pipe bodies, girth welds, and bends.
- Hydrogen Corrosion Testing: Specialized tests to assess the impact of hydrogen on pipeline materials, ensuring durability and resistance to hydrogen-induced corrosion.
