October 10, 2022. Following nearly five years R&D, IP compilation, and 3rd party compliance consul, BrainDrip, LLC, and its wholly owned subsidiaries IQ4H2 Lab and New4H2 Hub, are initiating measured dissemination of their disruptive technologies for safely and efficiently meeting the world’s transition to hydrogen. “We are excited that our SG Technologies for hydrogen have been chosen for a feature article in the upcoming December issue of H2 View Magazine which will focus on hydrogen and transmission and storage innovations. In our opinion and in that of our colleagues and alliances, H2 View is the most informative, responsible, and respected hydrogen forum globally, and we are humbled to be highlighted in this future issue,” stated Kent Weisenberg, Managing Partner, and Team Principal at BrainDrip, LLC.
“As a pipeline innovations leader, early on we noted the immense international focus on hydrogen generation technologies and swiftly recognized the equally important need for the capability to safely and efficiently transmit, distribute and store that energy after production,” stated Kent Weisenberg, Managing Partner, and Team Principal, BrainDrip, LLC. “Noting that the current compliance doctrine for hydrogen pipelines was limited at best, and somewhat divergent of our normal conceptual development practices, our first step was to solicit 3rd party consul to assure that our initial design considerations, material interpretations and manufacturing methodologies would exceed any future regulatory compliance changes for hydrogen,” added Weisenberg. BrainDrip enlisted the professional services of the Houston based Energy Services and Solutions, a national leader in pipeline compliance, testing, inspection, and risk assessment. “Energy Services and Solutions continues to be a true and objective asset to our continuing developments and is possibly the only fossil energy compliance firm that has also initiated a unified focus on the future transition of the national gas pipeline infrastructure to hydrogen,” he added.
The SG Stage I and Stage II Liner systems are manufactured entirely onsite in the BrainDrip – IQ4H2 Lab’s patented and responsible hybrid Mobile Onsite Factory (MOF). “The MOF is a self-contained automated manufacturing facility that is truly mobile and drivable. Of importance, the MOF manufacturing and installation methodologies are not constrained to HDPE, or its derivatives as most all contemporary pipeline renewal systems are. Uniquely, our automated methodologies allow for the onsite utilization of any feedstock material such as thermoplastics, fluoropolymers, or even recycled water bottles and plant-based materials, lending it to be by far, the most versatile and environmentally responsible pipeline renewal and conversion system available globally,” stated Weisenberg.
The SG Liner was developed for the conversion of existing pipelines to the transmission, distribution and or the line pack storage of hydrogen. The SG Liner is suitable for pipelines with diameters from 4 inch to 36 inch and dependent on diameter, production rates of up to 20 feet per minute, installation lengths of over 30 miles from a single ingress and more importantly pressure ratings of approximately 500 bar. “Due to the molecular structure and weight of hydrogen we realized that high compression was key to the economics of hydrogen transmission and storage, so early on, the team’s practical foresight and directive was to design our own reinforcement materials as well as a unique method of its layered appointment,” stated Lin Li, Ph. D., Principal Mechanical & Structural Engineer, BrainDrip, LLC. “Through 3rd party validation, our novel Micro-Rope reinforcement filament has demonstrated dramatically increased breaking efficiency therein providing breaking loads of over three times that of current liner and vessel reinforcement materials” “Equally as important, this revolutionary reinforcement matrix has notably increased resistance to creep, elevated temperatures and cyclic strain based fatigue, which are all an absolute requirement for the long-term efficacy and safety of any hydrogen vessel,” added Li.