Safe underground Hydrogen storage IN porous subsurface rEservoirs (SHINE)

氢能作为未来重要的低碳能源载体，有望在交通运输和燃料密集型工业中取代碳氢化合物的使用，正引起全球的关注。然而，为了提供净零点所需的太瓦时范围内的能量，它需要比目前部署的地面储罐或洞穴存储容量大得多的存储容量。下一个大规模储氢的解决方案是多孔含盐含水层和枯竭的碳氢化合物油田。这一观点在科学上很有吸引力，但由于缺乏主动储氢知识和经验，在技术上仍然具有挑战性。SHARE财团的主要目标是探索可行性，并解决与跨地下孔洞储集层进行氢气储存相关的技术、地质和水文地质挑战。Share将汇集来自五个欧洲国家的5所顶尖大学和研究小组，以及5个工业合作伙伴，为10名年轻科学家提供新的培训和研究技能。Share的目标是为下一代科学家提供技术和可转移的技能，将地球科学、工程学和微生物学技术结合起来，为氢存储技术中现有的悬而未决的问题找到解决方案。我们的新方法是集成分析、监测和计算技术，以探索氢可能如何与可能影响存储操作的地下矿物、流体和微生物群落反应；模拟跨氢储集层/盖层的应力场变化，并监测其在重复注入/生产周期中的地质力学响应。因此，由SIRE财团产生的训练有素的年轻研究科学家队伍将从根本上提高我们对这项技术的理解，实施并降低其在潜在项目中的应用风险，为政府和行业的决策者提供对地下储氢的必要见解，并为欧盟过渡能源做出积极贡献。

Hydrogen is attracting global attention as a key future low-carbon energy carrier which could replace hydrocarbon usage in transport and fuel-intensive industry. However, to supply energy in the TWh-range necessary for Net Zero it requires storage at much larger volumes than the currently deployed surface tanks or cavern storage. The next solution for large-scale hydrogen storage are porous saline aquifers and depleted hydrocarbon fields. This perspective is scientifically attractive but remains technically challenging given the lack of active hydrogen storage knowledge and experience. The main target of the SHINE consortium is to explore the feasibility and address technical, geological, and hydrogeological challenges related to hydrogen storage across subsurface porous reservoirs. SHINE will bring together 5 leading universities and research groups, from five European countries, and 5 industrial partners to deliver new training and research skills to 10 young scientists. SHINE aims at providing this next generation of scientists with technical and transferable skills to integrate geosciences, engineering, and microbiology techniques to find solutions to existing open questions in hydrogen storage technologies. Our novel approach is to integrate analytical, monitoring, and computing techniques to explore how hydrogen may react with the subsurface minerals, fluids, and microbial community potentially affecting the storage operations; model the stress field changes across hydrogen reservoir/caprocks, and monitor its geomechanical response during repeated injection/production cycles. The expertly trained cohort of young research scientists resulting from the SHINE consortium will therefore radically improve our understanding of this technology, implement and de-risk its application to potential projects providing the necessary insights into underground hydrogen storage for decision-makers in government and industry and contribute actively to the EU transition energy