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Título: CAVERN INTEGRITY FOR UNDERGROUND HYDROGEN STORAGE IN THE BRAZILIAN PRE-SALT FIELDS
Autor: WILLIAMS DIAS LOZADA PENA
Colaborador(es): DEANE DE MESQUITA ROEHL - Orientador
Catalogação: 26/SET/2023 Língua(s): ENGLISH - UNITED STATES
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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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
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.64121
Resumo:
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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