New environmentally friendly technologies, such as power-to-gas and biogas production systems, will change requirements for the entire natural gas industry, including gas metering. Due to these trends, future gas metering will be confronted with new mixtures of natural gas, including those that contain significant amounts of non-conventional fuel gases such as hyrogen or carbon dioxide. These new gas mixtures present a challenge for all the technologies currently used in natural gas metering. Sensirion has been working on these issues for many years and has announced what it believes is a major breakthrough in microthermal gas metering using a new technology to measure thermal gas characteristics that was developed in house.

Sensirion plans to commercialise this new technology by adding the new SGM6200 series to its current product portfolio of SGM6000 modules. Furthermore, the sensor company believes that the SGM6200 series fulfills both current and future market requirements. One single module covers natural gases in groups H and L and E (as defined in EN437) as well as natural gas mixtures, including non-conventional fuel gases with up to 25% hydrogen content. The SGM6200 family will output temperature-compensated volumes of natural gas, aligned with today’s most widely used billing systems for natural gas.