Underground hydrogen storage
Underground hydrogen storage is the practice of hydrogen storage in underground caverns,[1][2] salt domes and depleted oil/gas fields.[3][4] Large quantities of gaseous hydrogen have been stored in underground caverns by ICI for many years without any difficulties.[5] The storage of large quantities of hydrogen underground in solution-mined salt domes,[6] aquifers[7] or excavated rock caverns or mines can function as grid energy storage[8] which is essential for the hydrogen economy.[9] By using a turboexpander the electricity needs for compressed storage on 200 bar amounts to 2.1% of the energy content.[10]
Chevron Phillips Clemens Terminal
The Chevron Phillips Clemens Terminal in Texas has stored hydrogen since the 1980s in a solution-mined salt cavern. The cavern roof is about 2,800 feet (850 m) underground. The cavern is a cylinder with a diameter of 160 feet (49 m), a height of 1,000 feet (300 m) and a usable hydrogen capacity of 1,066 million cubic feet (30.2×10 6 m3), or 2,520 metric tons (2,480 long tons; 2,780 short tons).[11]
Development
- Sandia National Laboratories released in 2011 a life cycle cost analysis framework for geologic storage of hydrogen.[12]
- The European project Hyunder[13] indicated in 2013 that for the storage of wind and solar energy an additional 85 caverns are required as it can't be covered by PHES and CAES systems.[14]
- ETI released in 2015 a report The role of hydrogen storage in a clean responsive power system noting that the UK has sufficient salt bed resources to provide tens of GWe.[15]
See also
- Grid energy storage
- Hydrogen infrastructure
- Hydrogen economy
- Hydrogen turboexpander-generator
- Power to gas
- Timeline of hydrogen technologies
References
- ↑ 1979 - Underground hydrogen storage. Final report.
- ↑ hydrogen storage cavern system
- ↑ Underground hydrogen storage problems in Russia
- ↑ Energy storage 2012
- ↑ 1994 - ECN abstract
- ↑ 2006-Underground hydrogen storage in geological formations
- ↑ Brookhaven National Lab -Final report
- ↑ Large-scale hydrogen underground storage for securing fu-ture energy supplies
- ↑ LINDBLOM U. E. ; A conceptual design for compressed hydrogen storage in mined caverns
- ↑ Energy technology analysis.Pag.70
- ↑ ORNL-Pag.20
- ↑ a life cycle cost analysis framework for geologic storage of hydrogen
- ↑ Hyunder
- ↑ Storing renewable energy: Is hydrogen a viable solution?
- ↑ The role of hydrogen storage in a clean responsive power system
External links
- Hydrogen Supply Availability with Cavern Storage
- Large Hydrogen Underground Storage
- Wasserstoff-Speicherung in Salzkavernen zur Glättung des Windstromangebots (German)
- 1993-Energy and hydrogen Pag.48
- 2009-SNL-Geologic Storage of Hydrogen
- Hydrogen stored in salt caverns could be converted into flexible power source archive