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Hydrogen underground storage efficiency in a heterogeneous sandstone reservoir

Show Author's Information Doaa Saleh Mahdi1,  Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi1,2,  Yujie Yuan3,4,  Yihuai Zhang5,  Stefan Iglauer6
Petroleum Technology Department, University of Technology, Baghdad 10066, Iraq
Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Discipline of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia
School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Deep-Earth Dynamics of Ministry of Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing 100037, P. R. China
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BP, UK
School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup 6027, Western Australia, Australia
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Hydrogen storage, reservoir simulation, hydrogen recovery, heterogeneous reservoirs, hydrogen leakage
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Mahdi DS, Al-Khdheeawi EA, Yuan Y, et al. Hydrogen underground storage efficiency in a heterogeneous sandstone reservoir. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2021, 5(4): 437-443. https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2021.04.08
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Underground hydrogen storage has been recognized as a key technology for storing enormous amounts of hydrogen, thus aiding in the industrial-scale application of a hydrogen economy. However, underground hydrogen storage is only poorly understood, which leads to high project risk. This research thus examined the effect of caprock availability and hydrogen injection rate on hydrogen recovery factor and hydrogen leakage rate to address some fundamental questions related to underground hydrogen storage. A three dimensional heterogeneous reservoir model was developed, and the impact of caprock and hydrogen injected rate on hydrogen underground storage efficiency were analysed with the model. The results indicate that both caprock and injection rate have an important impact on hydrogen leakage, and the quantities of trapped and recovered hydrogen. It is concluded that higher injection rate increases H 2 leakage when caprocks are absent. In addition, lower injection rates and caprock availability increases the amount of recovered hydrogen. This work therefore provided fundamental information regarding underground hydrogen storage project assessment, and supports the decarbonisation of the energy supply chain.


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Hydrogen underground storage efficiency in a heterogeneous sandstone reservoir

Show Author's information Doaa Saleh Mahdi1, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi1,2, Yujie Yuan3,4, Yihuai Zhang5, Stefan Iglauer6
Petroleum Technology Department, University of Technology, Baghdad 10066, Iraq
Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Discipline of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia
School of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Deep-Earth Dynamics of Ministry of Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Institute of Geology, Beijing 100037, P. R. China
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BP, UK
School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup 6027, Western Australia, Australia

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Underground hydrogen storage has been recognized as a key technology for storing enormous amounts of hydrogen, thus aiding in the industrial-scale application of a hydrogen economy. However, underground hydrogen storage is only poorly understood, which leads to high project risk. This research thus examined the effect of caprock availability and hydrogen injection rate on hydrogen recovery factor and hydrogen leakage rate to address some fundamental questions related to underground hydrogen storage. A three dimensional heterogeneous reservoir model was developed, and the impact of caprock and hydrogen injected rate on hydrogen underground storage efficiency were analysed with the model. The results indicate that both caprock and injection rate have an important impact on hydrogen leakage, and the quantities of trapped and recovered hydrogen. It is concluded that higher injection rate increases H 2 leakage when caprocks are absent. In addition, lower injection rates and caprock availability increases the amount of recovered hydrogen. This work therefore provided fundamental information regarding underground hydrogen storage project assessment, and supports the decarbonisation of the energy supply chain.

Keywords: Hydrogen storage, reservoir simulation, hydrogen recovery, heterogeneous reservoirs, hydrogen leakage

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Received: 06 November 2021
Revised: 18 November 2021
Accepted: 19 November 2021
Published: 21 November 2021
Issue date: December 2021

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Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi and Doaa S. Mahdi appreciates the University of Technology for the support. Yujie Yuan would like to thank the funding from the Key Laboratory of Deep-Earth Dynamics of Ministry of Natural Resources (Funding Number: J1901), Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing.

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