{"id":230895,"date":"2026-02-09T02:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/humidity-resistant-hydrogen-sensor-can-improve-safety-in-large-scale-clean-energy"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:13:43","slug":"humidity-resistant-hydrogen-sensor-can-improve-safety-in-large-scale-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/humidity-resistant-hydrogen-sensor-can-improve-safety-in-large-scale-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"Humidity-resistant hydrogen sensor can improve safety in large-scale clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humidity-resistant-hydrogen-sensor-can-improve-safety-in-large-scale-clean-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wherever hydrogen is present, safety sensors are required to detect leaks and prevent the formation of flammable oxyhydrogen gas when hydrogen is mixed with air. It is therefore a challenge that today\u2019s sensors do not work optimally in humid environments\u2014because where there is hydrogen, there is very often humidity. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are presenting a new sensor that is well suited to humid environments\u2014and actually performs better the more humid it gets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performance of a hydrogen gas sensor can vary dramatically from environment to environment, and humidity is an important factor. An issue today is that many sensors become slower or perform less effectively in humid environments. When we tested our new sensor concept, we discovered that the more we increased the humidity, the stronger the response to hydrogen became. It took us a while to really understand how this could be possible,\u201d says Chalmers doctoral student Athanasios Theodoridis, who is the lead author of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acssensors.5c03166\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is an increasingly important energy carrier in the transport sector and is used as a raw material in the chemical industry or for green steel manufacturing. In addition to water being constantly present in ambient air, it is also formed when hydrogen reacts with oxygen to generate energy, for example, in a fuel cell that can be used in hydrogen-powered vehicles and ships. Furthermore, fuel cells themselves require water to prevent the membranes that separate oxygen and hydrogen inside them from drying out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever hydrogen is present, safety sensors are required to detect leaks and prevent the formation of flammable oxyhydrogen gas when hydrogen is mixed with air. It is therefore a challenge that today\u2019s sensors do not work optimally in humid environments\u2014because where there is hydrogen, there is very often humidity. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}