AIRTO member TWI is pleased to announce that they have secured €500k in GSTP grant funding from the European Space Agency to build a unique facility to help companies qualify components for high-temperature hydrogen service.
TWI have now started a 24-month project to build an ‘Elevated Temperature Hydrogen Embrittlement Rig (ETHER),’ which will set TWI up as a service provider for high-temperature hydrogen embrittlement testing, tailored to space applications. They aim to be able to perform dynamic mechanical tests in H2 gas at pressures up to 500 Bar and temperatures up to 425°C.
This new facility will be housed within TWI’s environmental testing laboratories in Cambridge, UK, and will maintain TWI’s position at the forefront of gaseous H2 testing.
