Thermo-mechanical investigation of salt caverns for short-term hydrogen storage

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Böttcher, Norbert ^a,b   Görke, Uwe Jens ^b   Kolditz, Olaf ^b,c   Nagel, Thomas ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hydrogen storage; OpenGeoSys; Renewable energy storage; Rock salt caverns; Thermo mechanical modelling

Indexed keywords

CAVES; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; SALT DEPOSITS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TEMPERATURE; VISCOELASTICITY;

FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; OPENGEOSYS; RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGES; ROCK SALT CAVERN; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MATERIAL PROPERTIES; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS;

HYDROGEN STORAGE;

CAVERN; CYCLIC LOADING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOST ROCK; HYDROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; ROCK SALT; SIMULATOR; SOFTWARE; STORAGE; TENSILE STRESS; THERMOMECHANICS;

EID: 85010665761     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-6414-2     Document Type: Article

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