Subsurface Hydrogen Energy Storage: Current Status, Prospects, and Challenges

Subsurface Hydrogen Energy Storage: Current status, Prospects, and Challenges presents a comprehensive explanation of the technical challenges and solutions associated with subsurface hydrogen energy storage, including system design, safety measures, and operational efficiency. Supported by real-world case studies, the book analyses the economic and environmental benefits and drawbacks of subsurface hydrogen energy storage, including a comparative analysis of different forms of energy storage.

The book brings together the latest research and knowledge on subsurface hydrogen energy storage, including the geological and hydrogeological aspects of hydrogen storage, hydrogen production, storage technologies, and safety and regulatory issues. It discusses the potential applications of subsurface hydrogen storage in various sectors, such as power generation, transportation, and industry. The book also features case studies and current applications, as well as a detailed examination of the technical challenges and solutions associated with subsurface hydrogen energy storage.

Addressing all the scientific and technical challenges that must be overcome for subsurface hydrogen storage to be deployed at scale, Subsurface Hydrogen Energy Storage: Current status, Prospects, and Challenges is an invaluable reference for researchers, engineers, and industry professionals involved in hydrogen and energy storage, the hydrogen economy, and reservoir engineering.

• Explains the current technologies and techniques for subsurface hydrogen storage, including reservoir engineering, geomechanics, and thermodynamics
• Analyses the potential benefits and challenges of subsurface hydrogen storage, including the role of hydrogen in energy transition and climate change mitigation
• Offers case studies of subsurface hydrogen storage projects around the world, including their technical and economic feasibility

Dr. Achinta Bera is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the School of Energy Technology, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, India. He received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad in 2014. After that, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada in the EOGRRC Group from 2014-2015. Thereafter, he moved to the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi (Currently known as Khalifa University) to work as Postdoctoral Research Associate and spent 3 years working on a project related to carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling funded by ADNOC. He has published several articles in refereed international journals in petroleum engineering. He is an active reviewer of more than 40 reputable international journals like the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Energy & Fuels, Langmuir, SPE Journal, Applied Energy, Fuel, Chemical Engineering Science etc.

Sunil Kumar is the Chief Innovation officer at Sciglyph. He did his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and Postdoctoral research from University of Calgary, Canada and Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He has more than 10 year of research experience in Energy, complex fluids, and carbon analytics. His keen interest is on underground hydrogen storage and carbon sequestration for the mitigation of Greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. He is an active reviewer of several reputable international journals like the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Energy & Fuels, Petroleum Science, Natural Resources Research, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects etc. He has published more than 21 international journal papers and 3 book chapters.