Safe underground Hydrogen storage IN porous subsurface rEservoirs (SHINE)

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Title
Safe underground Hydrogen storage IN porous subsurface rEservoirs (SHINE)

CoPED ID
bc3e20de-9892-4ad9-b218-90b8c29f05ab

Status
Active

Funder

Value
£530,502

Start Date
Feb. 1, 2023

End Date
Jan. 31, 2027

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Hydrogen is attracting global attention as a key future low-carbon energy carrier which could replace hydrocarbon usage in transport and fuel-intensive industry. However, to supply energy in the TWh-range necessary for Net Zero it requires storage at much larger volumes than the currently deployed surface tanks or cavern storage. The next solution for large-scale hydrogen storage are porous saline aquifers and depleted hydrocarbon fields. This perspective is scientifically attractive but remains technically challenging given the lack of active hydrogen storage knowledge and experience. The main target of the SHINE consortium is to explore the feasibility and address technical, geological, and hydrogeological challenges related to hydrogen storage across subsurface porous reservoirs.
SHINE will bring together 5 leading universities and research groups, from five European countries, and 5 industrial partners to deliver new training and research skills to 10 young scientists. SHINE aims at providing this next generation of scientists with technical and transferable skills to integrate geosciences, engineering, and microbiology techniques to find solutions to existing open questions in hydrogen storage technologies. Our novel approach is to integrate analytical, monitoring, and computing techniques to explore how hydrogen may react with the subsurface minerals, fluids, and microbial community potentially affecting the storage operations; model the stress field changes across hydrogen reservoir/caprocks, and monitor its geomechanical response during repeated injection/production cycles. The expertly trained cohort of young research scientists resulting from the SHINE consortium will therefore radically improve our understanding of this technology, implement and de-risk its application to potential projects providing the necessary insights into underground hydrogen storage for decision-makers in government and industry and contribute actively to the EU transition energy

Subjects by relevance
  1. Hydrogen
  2. Warehousing
  3. Technology
  4. Energy technology
  5. Storage
  6. Fuels
  7. Sources of energy
  8. Energy
  9. Energy production (process industry)

Extracted key phrases
  1. Safe underground Hydrogen storage
  2. Active hydrogen storage knowledge
  3. Hydrogen storage technology
  4. Scale hydrogen storage
  5. Porous subsurface rEservoirs
  6. Cavern storage
  7. Storage operation
  8. Hydrogen reservoir
  9. Porous saline aquifer
  10. Carbon energy carrier
  11. Key future low
  12. Subsurface mineral
  13. SHINE
  14. Young research scientist
  15. Global attention

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