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EU Project Successfully Completed
The research project “Hydrogen Underground Storage in Porous Reservoirs” (HyUSPRe for short), funded by the European Commission, was successfully completed on June 30, 2024. In this project, ITE, together with six other research partners and ten industry partners (primarily 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 by 2050, two-thirds of which will be in porous reservoirs. Based on the results of this research, the HyUSPRe consortium concluded that there are no “showstoppers” to implementation and that the results can therefore be considered encouraging.
The ITE was involved in this project specifically in WP4 “Flow” and WP6 “Modeling.” In these work packages, parameters for the flow and transport processes of hydrogen in the storage rock (e.g., effective diffusion coefficients) were experimentally determined 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 on the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS):
