Título: | CAVERN INTEGRITY FOR UNDERGROUND HYDROGEN STORAGE IN THE BRAZILIAN PRE-SALT FIELDS | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
WILLIAMS DIAS LOZADA PENA |
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Colaborador(es): |
DEANE DE MESQUITA ROEHL - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 26/SET/2023 | Língua(s): | ENGLISH - UNITED STATES |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=64121&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=64121&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.64121 | ||||||||||||
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Over the years, energy has been highly dependent on non-sustainable
resources. However, global warming and the energy crisis urge for investments in
renewable energy resources, such as hydrogen. The gas must be stored in a secure
medium to avoid migration to the external environment. Thus, this work focuses on
hydrogen storage in salt caverns, as these rocks present relevant properties for a
storage site, such as low permeability. A workflow for cavern analysis from
construction to operation is proposed, implemented, and applied to synthetic and
actual field cases. Hydrogen storage provokes variations in temperature and
pressure inside the cavern. The gas thermodynamics follows a diabatic solution,
which updates gas pressure and temperature to represent the field conditions. The
thermomechanical formulation is implemented into an in-house framework GeMA,
which couples different physics. Synthetic case studies include homogeneous
deposits and different cavern geometries. The results demonstrate the importance
of thermal effects, as temperature amplitudes may compromise rock integrity,
inducing tensile stresses and affecting its permeability. A hydraulic study
demonstrated minimal hydrogen migration risk. Finally, two real field conditions
were investigated, considering heterogeneous salt stratifications and a sonar-based
cavern geometry. The results highlight some integrity challenges to be faced during
cavern operation.
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