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Potential of Salt Caverns for Hydrogen Storage in Southern Ontario, Canada
Mining, 2023 Salt caverns produced by solution mining in Southern Ontario provide ideal spaces for gas storage due to their low permeability. Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) is an important part of the future renewable energy market in Ontario in order to achieve ...
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Microbial hydrogen consumption leads to a significant pH increase under high-saline-conditions: implications for hydrogen storage in salt caverns [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Salt caverns have been successfully used for natural gas storage globally since the 1940s and are now under consideration for hydrogen (H2) storage, which is needed in large quantities to decarbonize the economy to finally reach a net zero by 2050.
Nicole Dopffel +8 more
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Feasibility assessment of solution mining and gas storage in salt caverns: a case study of the Sanshui salt mine [PDF]
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 The Sanshui salt mine is the sole location in the Guangdong province of South China with the potential to construct a salt cavern gas storage (SCGS) facility. Nevertheless, the gas storage construction of this mine faces significant challenges due to the
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Predicting microbial activity potential in salt caverns based on brine chaotropicity analysis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSalt caverns are promising sites for hydrogen (H₂) storage, but microbial activity in these high-salinity environments poses risks, including H₂ consumption and subsequent toxic hydrogen-sulfide (H₂S) production by sulphate-reducing bacteria.
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Detection and Evaluation Technologies for Using Existing Salt Caverns to Build Energy Storage
Energies, 2022 Underground salt caverns are widely used in large-scale energy storage, such as natural gas, compressed air, oil, and hydrogen. In order to quickly build large-scale natural gas reserves, an unusual building method was established.
Yuanxi Liu +6 more
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Energies, 2023 To increase natural gas storage capacity and further utilize salt mine resources, salt cavern gas storage in the Yunying salt mine, Hubei Province, China, was simultaneously constructed in two different mining layers (K3 and K4).
Kai Zhao +9 more
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Geomechanical simulation of energy storage in salt formations
Scientific Reports, 2021 A promising option for storing large-scale quantities of green gases (e.g., hydrogen) is in subsurface rock salt caverns. The mechanical performance of salt caverns utilized for long-term subsurface energy storage plays a significant role in long-term ...
Kishan Ramesh Kumar +3 more
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Development opportunity of salt-cavern gas storage in new-type power system
You-qi chuyun, 2022 Some achievements have been made in a province of China for old cavern reconstruction of salt-cavern gas storage, but some of the reconstructed caverns are not suitable to be used as underground gas storages for peak sheaving of pipeline network due to ...
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Mineralogy, microstructures and geomechanics of rock salt for underground gas storage
Deep Underground Science and Engineering, 2023 Rock salt has excellent properties for its use as underground leak‐proof containers for the storage of renewable energy. Salt solution mining has long been used for salt mining, and can now be employed in the construction of underground salt caverns for ...
Veerle Vandeginste +3 more
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IEEE Access, 2020 To fully utilize the abandoned salt cavern resources and to increase the total amount of the fossil energy reserve of China, reconstructing some of these salt caverns for underground gas storage (UGS) or strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) would be an ...
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