Hydrogen storage in gas reservoirs: A molecular modeling and experimental investigation

Giuliano Carchini; Ahmed Hamza; Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein; Mohammed Saad; Mohamed Mahmoud; Reyad Shawabkeh; Santiago Aparicio

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.11.174

Hydrogen storage in gas reservoirs: A molecular modeling and experimental investigation

Giuliano Carchini
, Ahmed Hamza
, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein^*
, Mohammed Saad
, Mohamed Mahmoud
, Reyad Shawabkeh
, Santiago Aparicio

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Petroleum Engineering

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Abstract

Hydrogen is one of the clean energy sources that can be used instead of fossil fuel sources to reduce greenhouse emissions. However, hydrogen supply intermittency significantly reduces the deployment and reliability of this energy resource. Therefore, this work investigates the underground storage of hydrogen in depleted gas reservoirs to avoid seasonal fluctuations in hydrogen supply and assure long-term energy security. The obtained results from molecular simulation (Density Functional Theory) revealed hydrogen is adsorbed physically on calcite (104) and silica (001) surfaces on different adsorption configurations. This conclusion is supported by low adsorption energies (−0.14 eV for calcite and −0.09 for silica) and by Bader charge analysis, which showed no indication of charge transfer. The experimental results illustrated that hydrogen has a very low adsorption affinity toward carbonate and sandstone rocks in the temperature range of 50–100 °C and pressure up to 20 bar. These results show the potential of depleted gas reservoirs to store hydrogen for s is useful in hydrogen recovery as no hydrogen will be adsorbed to the rock surface of conventional gas reservoirs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7419-7430
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	48
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.11.174
State	Published - 5 Mar 2023

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Keywords

Calcite
Density functional theory
Depleted gas reservoirs
Hydrogen adsorption
Hydrogen storage
Molecular simulation

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Condensed Matter Physics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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