H100
Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: Opportunities and Challenges for Enabling a Low Carbon Future
Session ID#: 161241
Session Description:
Hydrogen as an energy carrier has promise to enable the transition from our current dependence on fossil fuels towards a sustainable low-carbon future. Hydrogen is attractive because it can be generated using existing and emergent technologies. While industrial development is needed, leveraging existing infrastructure would accelerate the transition. However, the risks associated with hydrogen in our energy system are inadequately understood. Questions remain about underground hydrogen storage (UHS) feasibility, which is a necessary element of a hydrogen economy. Pressing challenges are assessing the technical practicability of storing vast amounts of hydrogen in existing or geo-engineered subsurface reservoirs, determining if natural accumulations exist, developing technologies for subsurface hydrogen monitoring, and informing policies and regulations to enable transition towards hydrogen as an energy carrier. This session seeks to include broad perspectives on UHS to enable discourse and advance our understanding for how hydrogen may be used to enable a low carbon future.
Index Terms:
0216 Engineering geology [GEOHEALTH]
1051 Sedimentary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
5139 Transport properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Nicolas J Huerta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners: Djuna M Gulliver, NETL-DOE, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Donald Conley, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Gabriela Davila, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Seismic Responses for Monitoring of Underground Storage of H2-CH4 (1056572)
Douglas R Schmitt1, Mohammed Balzamit1, Donna Willette2 and Sherilyn Williams-Stroud3, (1)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (2)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, (3)Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, United States
Hydrogen Storage in Solution Mined Salt Caverns: An Overview (1073667)
Barry L. Roberts1, Joe Hogge2, Tonya Ross2, Steven R. Sobolik1, Raquel Valdez2 and Anna S. Lord2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
The Impact of Pore Geometry on Multiphase Hydrogen Flow in Porous Media (1075607)
Siqin Yu1,2, Mengsu Hu3, Carl I Steefel3 and Ilenia Battiato4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (2)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Modeling Underground Hydrogen Storage in Saline Aquifers with Different Types of Cushion Gases (1078786)
Qingqi Zhao1, Yuhang Wang2, Hadi Hajibeygi2 and Cheng Chen3, (1)Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, United States
Cost Analysis of Geologic Hydrogen Storage: A Case Study in the U.S. Intermountain-West Regions (1082307)
Fangxuan Chen1, Martin Ma2, Bailian Chen3, Mohamed Mehana2 and Jolante van Wijk1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
A Multi-Scale Investigation of Hydrogen Geologic Storage: Transport, Reactivity and Caprock Integrity (1097159)
Eric J Guiltinan1, Siddharth Komini Babu1, James W Carey2, Robert Currier2, Luke Frash1, Timothy Germann1, Mohamed Mehana2, Chelsea Neil1, Gaoxue Wang1 and Michael Robert Gross1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Trapping, Hysteresis and Ostwald Ripening in Hydrogen Storage: A Pore-Scale Imaging Study (1104052)
Sepideh Goodarzi1, Yihuai Zhang2, Branko Bijeljic1 and Martin Julian Blunt1, (1)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Microbial dynamics in hydrogen storage simulation conditions (1111387)
Djuna M Gulliver, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Kara Tinker, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Geomicrobiology, Pittsburgh, United States and Christopher Bagwell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Shale mineralogy alteration associated with subsurface H2 storage (1111669)
Bryan Xavier Medina Rodriguez1, Vincent Noel2, Adam D Jew2, Anthony R Kovscek3 and Jennifer L Druhan4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, United States, (2)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, United States
Surface Deformation, Inverse Methods, and Machine Learning to Estimate the Distribution of Volumetric Changes for an Assembly of Caverns in a Salt Dome: Implications for Monitoring H2 Storage. (1130678)
Tim Masterlark1, Scyller J. Borglum2, Sophie Minas3, Nils Skaug3 and Sui Tung4, (1)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (2)WSP USA, Rapid City, United States, (3)WSP USA, Houston, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
Storing Hydrogen: Greenfield Development and Leveraging Existing Infrastructure (1136150)
Scyller J. Borglum1, Andres Fernandez2, Hugh Kaiser2, Tim Masterlark3 and Nils Skaug2, (1)WSP USA, Rapid City, United States, (2)WSP USA, Houston, United States, (3)South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, United States
Effects of Operational Strategies in Seasonal Underground Hydrogen Storage in Natural Gas Fields (1170488)
Julia Camargo1, Thomas A Buscheck2, Nicolas J Huerta1, Victor Fakeye3 and Joshua A. White4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - LLNL, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Exploring the Potential of Storing Hydrogen in Undeground Salt Caverns in the US. (1174169)
Les Armstrong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Dharik Mallapragada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Energy Initiative, Cambridge, MA, United States, Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Kristin Bergmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Sarah Bryson Coyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management, Cambridge, United States and Caitlin Fukumoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Planning & Design, Cambridge, United States
Visualizing the dynamics of hydrogen storage in saline aquifers using X-ray computed tomography (1180551)
Arjun H Kohli, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Tae Wook Kim, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Anthony R Kovscek, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States
What Makes a Good Underground Hydrogen Storage Reservoir? Insights From Existing Gas Storage Fields, Classic Petroleum Systems, and Geologic Principles (1185265)
Nicolas J Huerta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Greg Lackey, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Gabriela Davila, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Flow Behavior and Fluid Displacement During Pure and Blended Hydrogen Injection in Sandstones (1187209)
Lirong Zhong1, Christopher Bagwell2, Nicolas J Huerta1, Julia Camargo1, Ava Folloni3, Seunghwan Baek1 and Gabriela Davila4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States, (4)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Neutron imaging as a method to understand underground hydrogen storage (1190076)
Jacob LaManna1, Michael Cyrus Daugherty1, Youngju Kim2, Daniel Seth Hussey1, Elias Baltic2 and David L Jacobson1, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, United States
Laboratory evaluation of the impact of hydrogen on the petrophysical and geomechanical properties of sandstone reservoir rocks for application to subsurface hydrogen storage (1194844)
Joel Sarout1, Mustafa Sari1,2, Lionel Esteban1, Jeremie Dautriat1, Ausama Giwelli1, Ahmed Al-Yaseri3, Partha Pratim Mandal1,4, Ludwig Monmusson1, Philip Hazewinkel1, Leigh Kiewiet1, Michael Verrall2 and Mohhamad Sarmadivaleh4, (1)CSIRO Energy, Perth, Australia, (2)CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia, (3)King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (4)Curtin University, Perth, Australia
