ESRIG Scientists Pubish in Nature Scientific Reports

Researchers from the University of Groningen, including ESRIG members Iris Westra, Bert Scheeren, Wouter Peters and Harro Meijer, were able to design a novel measuring methodology that gained them insight in the current loss rates of atmospheric hydrogen at a chemical park in Delfzijl (The Netherlands).

Within the current energy transition, the pivotal role of hydrogen "the energy carrier", is expected to increase, and with that the release of anthropogenic hydrogen emissions into the atmosphere resulting in an indirect enhanced global warming effect. Since current hydrogen emissions along the entire value chain are unknown it is important to bridge the gap between model predictions and reality, by offering a state-of-the-art-high precision hydrogen analysis system to provide empirical data from atmospheric hydrogen concentration. A study on this has been published recently in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.