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Gas Testing Services

Gas Testing Services

HRL’s gas sampling and analysis services provide expert support to the gas industry and consumers. Our NATA accredited Gas Testing Laboratory helps clients to maintain critical quality control of their products including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, reformed gas and hydrogen.

Our gas services include:

  • sampling from low pressure gas lines to high-pressure mains
  • precise testing of hydrocarbons, hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
  • heating value, Wobbe index and relative density calculations
  • sulphur composition, hydrogen sulphide, carbonyl sulphide
  • mercaptan odorant analysis (tertiary-butyl mercaptan and tetrahydrothiophene) and organoleptic testing.
  • hydrogen purity testing
  • odorant addition to pipelines i.e. ‘Slug dosing’
  • gas detection and monitoring
  • dew point and water vapour determination
  • residue on evaporation analysis
  • copper corrosion testing
  • quick turnaround for urgent samples.

Challenges

Gas producers face several challenges in maintaining the quality of their products to ensure efficient production is achieved, regulatory standards are met, and safety is maintained.

Gas consumers need to ensure that the quality of their gas supply meets their requirements.

The composition of fuel gases, in conjunction with their associated physical properties, are used to ascertain regulatory and quality compliance for distributed natural gas and LPG, and environmental regulations of refinery gas outputs.

Solutions

Utilising specialist instrumentation and equipment, HRL can provide extensive analytical and testing capabilities in gas analysis. This service provides gas producers with high-quality analysis of the gas products they produce and supply.

HRL can enable its clients to meet these challenges by carrying out sampling programs to clients requirements providing independent expert analytical testing services to accurately determine chemical composition and physical properties of gaseous samples.

J-Power Gasification and Hydrogen Refining Pilot Plant

 

J-Power Latrobe Valley Gasification and Hydrogen Refining Pilot Plant

 

 

The HRL analytical team provided all analysis
services for the J-Power Latrobe Valley gasification
and hydrogen refining pilot plant.  This included
collection and analysis of both solid and gas samples.
In the case of hydrogen gas quality, the target purity
was 99.999%. A sound sampling methodology
and specialist techniques were required
to determine hydrogen purity at such high levels
and the gas contaminants at very low concentrations.

NATA accreditation

HRL's NATA accreditation for analysis of gaseous fuels, including natural gas, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), and reformed gas, gives our clients another reason to have confidence in HRL as a leader in this field.

You can read more about HRL's NATA accreditation here.

HRL’s gas sampling and analysis services provide expert support to the gas industry. Our NATA accredited Gas Testing Laboratory helps clients to maintain critical quality control of their products including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, reformed gas and hydrogen.

Click here to download our Gas Testing Services flyer

 

Here are the links to our Gas Testing Case Studies
 

Gas Odorant Dosing and Testing
HRL helps ensure compliance and safety in gas odorant dosing and testing

Hydrogen High Purity Analysis
HRL helps ensure compliance and high purity in high purity hydrogen analysis

Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Quality Testing
HRL helps validate quality of LPG and uphold quality assurance

 

Meet the expert

Pauline Najjar

PAULINE NAJJAR

An analytical chemist with over 30 years’ experience. Pauline has managed the Gas Testing Services for HRL for the last three years, achieving NATA accreditation for our analyses, operating our gas chromatographs, and liaising with our customers to best meet their needs.

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Our Certifications

NATA

NATA accredited AtS/NZS ISO 17025, AS/NZS ISO 17020NATA Accredited Laboratories number 561

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 Quality Management certified by BSI under certificate number FS605116.