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The HyDRA project is a joint research project involving nine partners (BGR, GNS Science, IDAEA-CSIC, ISO, KIT, TUC, UEDIN, UiB, and UNINA) from six European countries, supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and co-funded by the European Union. The overall objective of the HyDRA project is to “characterize hydrogen-consuming microbial activity and its interaction with the storage formation to determine guiding principles that mitigate risk and enable rapid progress in underground storage in porous media as part of the European hydrogen ecosystem.”
Our goal is achieved through 10 quantifiable key objectives, including:
- Standardized protocols for field sampling and biogeochemical laboratory methods
- Mapping of microbial taxonomic and functional diversity across Europe
- Derivation of models that improve and scale up biogeochemical laboratory results for site-specific microbial risk assessment
- Provision of a tool for rapid site selection using a predictive microbial risk index
- Updating guidelines to support gas storage operators in site-specific risk assessment and risk management.
The HyDRA project is carried out in 12 work packages, in which the research partners and associated SSOs will assess the microbial risks associated with hydrogen storage in porous reservoirs. The Institute of Subsurface Energy Systems (TUC) is specifically involved in Work Packages 9 and 10, in which numerical models will be developed, calibrated on a laboratory scale, and scaled up to the field scale to predict and assess the influence of microbial processes on storage operations.
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