Touch Sensity: Innovating Structural Health Monitoring for Hydrogen Pressure Vessels
Key Ideas
  • Touch Sensity offers SensityTech, an advanced non-intrusive sensing system for real-time monitoring of hydrogen pressure vessels, ensuring safety and predictive maintenance.
  • The technology can detect material property variations, microcracks, and erosion, providing fast and reliable information on structural integrity.
  • Applications include monitoring stationary and high-pressure hydrogen tanks, coating integrity of trailer tanks, and metal tanks in aerospace to prevent sudden failures.
  • The innovative solution by Touch Sensity enhances safety measures in various industries by preventing critical damages through early detection of material degradation.
Touch Sensity, based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, specializes in intelligent materials and has introduced SensityTech, a cutting-edge non-intrusive sensing technology aimed at structural health monitoring (SHM) of hydrogen pressure vessels. The company's solution offers real-time monitoring capabilities, detecting damages and variations in material properties to ensure safety, durability, and predictive maintenance. By collaborating with manufacturers in aerospace, defense, railway, and naval industries, Touch Sensity addresses the challenges faced by hydrogen pressure vessels, particularly Type 3 and 4 vessels. The technology integrates data acquisition, processing, and analysis into a compact module connected to the periphery of the vessel, providing a comprehensive view of the material's internal state without intrusive measures. Touch Sensity's innovation has practical applications in monitoring stationary and high-pressure hydrogen tanks to prevent leakages and microcracks, as well as maintaining the integrity of coating in trailer tanks to avoid safety compromises. Furthermore, the technology extends its utility to metal tanks in aerospace by detecting material property changes that could lead to embrittlement and cracks. By offering early detection of material degradation and damages, SensityTech enhances safety measures and enables predictive maintenance, ensuring the structural integrity of hydrogen pressure vessels. Touch Sensity's solution not only optimizes the operational efficiency of these vessels but also contributes to the overall safety and longevity of critical infrastructure in various industries.
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