H23K:
Energy Development and Storage in the Subsurface: Modeling and Monitoring Challenges and Solution Strategies II


Session ID#: 10558

Session Description:
Energy storage is essential to establish a low-carbon, renewables-driven electric power system, where intermittency of supply is a major challenge. One promising large-scale storage option is energy storage in the subsurface, including both mechanical and chemical storage. This session focuses on the challenges associated with subsurface energy storage, especially systems involving subsurface gas storage (synthetic natural gas, hydrogen) and compressed air storage. The goal of this session is to identify key challenges and improve our understanding of the complex multiphase flow, multicomponent transport and geomechanical processes involved and help assess reservoir performance and optimization as well as risks associated with subsurface energy storage. Exemplar studies of interest include but are not limited to: modeling of transport and trapping mechanisms occurring on different scales (e.g. frequent pressure reversal, hysteresis), upscaling of processes and/or parameters, model coupling to enhance model efficiency, laboratory and field measurements.
Primary Convener:  Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Beatrix Becker, University of Stuttgart, Dept. of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany, Domenico Bau, University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Chris J. Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Bo Guo, PhD, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Domenico Bau, University of Sheffield, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Chris J. Ballentine, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

1065 Major and trace element geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Compressed air energy storage in depleted natural gas reservoirs: effects of porous media and gas mixing (Invited) (73470)
Curtis M Oldenburg and Lehua Pan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Formation and migration of Natural Gases: gas composition and isotopes as monitors between source, reservoir and seep (Invited) (59495)
Martin Schoell, GasConsult International Inc., Berkeley, CA, United States; Retired, Washington, DC, United States and Giuseppe Etiope, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
Integrated Modeling and Experiments to Characterize Coupled Thermo-hydro-geomechanical-chemical processes in Hydraulic Fracturing (61158)
Hari Selvi Viswanathan1, James W Carey2, Satish Karra2, Mark L Porter1, Esteban Rougier2, Qinjun Kang3, Nataliia Makedonska1, Jeffrey Hyman2, Joaquin Jimenez Martinez1, Luke Frash2 and Li Chen4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Tracers and buoyancy driven dispersion in permeable rock (Invited) (60156)
Andy Woods, University of Cambridge, BP Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Numerical modeling of gas mixing and bio-chemical transformations during underground hydrogen storage within the project H2STORE (78508)
Birger Hagemann1, Felix Feldmann1, Mikhail Panfilov2 and Leonhard Ganzer1, (1)Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, (2)University of Lorraine, Nancy Cedex, France
Algebraic Multiscale Solver for Elastic Geomechanical Deformation (Invited) (77079)
Nicola Castelletto1, Hadi Hajibeygi2 and Hamdi Tchelepi1,3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Carbon and Noble Gas Isotope Banks in Two-Phase Flow: Changes in Gas Composition During Migration  (80230)
Kiran Sathaye, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Toti Larson, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Underground Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity using Abandoned Works (open pits and deep mines) (77873)
Estanislao Pujades1, Thibault Willems1, Sarah Bodeux1, Philippe Orban1 and Alain Dassargues2, (1)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (2)Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium

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