The research project ‘Hydrogen Underground storage in Porous Reservoirs’ (short: HyUSPRe) funded by the European Commission was successfully completed on 30 June 2024. In this project, the ITE, together with six other research partners and ten industrial partners (in particular gas storage operators), investigated the feasibility and potential of large-scale storage of renewable hydrogen in porous reservoirs (gas fields, aquifers) in Europe. The results showed that storage capacities in the range of 80-270 TWh will be required in 2050, two thirds of which in porous reservoirs. From the results of this research, the HyUSPRe consortium concluded that there are no ‘showstoppers’ for implementation and the results can therefore be considered encouraging.
In this project, the ITE was particularly involved in WP4 ‘Flow’ and WP6 ‘Modelling’. In these work packages, parameters for the flow and transport processes of hydrogen in the reservoir rock (e.g. effective diffusion coefficients) were determined experimentally in the laboratory and incorporated into a reservoir simulator. This simulation model was used to predict hydrogen storage at three selected potential storage sites. These results have been published in two scientific journals:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-023-02039-8
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2024.1385273
Further information and project results can be found at the Community Research and Development Information Service of the European Commission (CORDIS):
