Rens Ubels

Rens Ubels has over 30 years of experience in testing composite materials, components and full-scale structures for a wide variety of applications and customers. The majority of the projects include non-standard testing activities under extreme test conditions for which special setups had to be developed and built. Over the last decade, his focus has been on research projects to make aviation sustainable by using hydrogen. Current and future projects focus on hydrogen storage, production and use of liquid hydrogen for energy production. Within NLR, capabilities are being developed to support the aerospace industry in the transition to the use of hydrogen.

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Presentation

NLR’s liquid hydrogen testing facilities for the CH COCOLIH2T project

NLR will give an overview of its activities in the EU Clean Hydrogen project COCOLIH2T. Under this project, NLR and its partners are developing, manufacturing and testing a composite liquid hydrogen tank for aerospace applications. Besides an overview of the project and the NLR activities, the focus will be on cryogenic testing capabilities and in situ liquid hydrogen testing capabilities at NLR. Within COCOLIH2T, NLR generates material properties at 20K, performs permeability tests and will test full-scale liquid hydrogen tanks in the newly developed outdoor test facility. Large amounts of liquid hydrogen are available to test containers, fuel cells and jet engines.