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Underground Large-Scale Hydrogen Storage

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Hydrogen can be produced and stored by electrolysis of water using 100% renewable and clean energy sources (such as solar and wind energy). It can then be converted back into electricity with fuel cells to meet the energy demand. Today, by physical methods, hydrogen is stored as liquid and gas in tanks and underground geological areas (depleted oil and gas, aquifers and salt caverns). One of the important underground gas storage areas are salt caverns. Salt caverns are built in very tight and sealed underground salt rock formation by solution mining method. In this study, the storage of hydrogen in the underground at very large scales was investigated. As a result, salt caverns built in underground salt domes have very high hydrogen storage capacity. Therefore, in the future, we believe that large-scale underground hydrogen storage areas will play an important role in the hydrogen economy as integrated power plants.

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  1. Department of Geology Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cukurova University, Saricam, 01250, Türkiye

    Hatice Karakilcik

  2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Cukurova University, Saricam, 01250 Adana, Türkiye

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Karakilcik, H., Karakilcik, M. (2020). Underground Large-Scale Hydrogen Storage. In: Uyar, T. (eds) Accelerating the Transition to a 100% Renewable Energy Era. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 74. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40738-4_17

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