Dr Maja Rücker will deliver the ESE Departmental Seminar on 10 November 2022, “Let’s go subsurface with hydrogen: Assessing challenges from molecular properties to reservoir engineering“
Join us in room G41 – RSM Building – on Thursday 10 November 2022 at 12h15.
Or on Microsoft Teams: Maja Rücker Seminar
Abstract
The increasing interest in the use of hydrogen (H2) leads to a question, which yet needs to be addressed: Where can we store the large volumes needed? A Dutch survey by TNO and EGN found that with the estimated growth in hydrogen demand in the country, going subsurface is unavoidable [1]. Salt caverns for hydrogen storage are already being prepared for utilization and depleted gas-reservoirs might be needed from 2030 on. Whilst modelling and initial experimental results are promising, plenty of questions still need to be answered [2]. In this lecture, we will particularly focus on the unique nature of hydrogen from a molecular level and how it needs to be addressed for the establishment of future reservoir engineering workflows, e.g. in the frame of Digital Rocks Physics, needed for the realization of hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs.
[1] van Gessel, S. F., Huijskes, T., Schroot, B., & Dalman, R. A. F. (2021). Subsurface energy storage is essential for the future energy system. Storage guarantees security of supply and flexibility.
[2] Heinemann, N., Alcalde, J., Miocic, J. M., Hangx, S. J., Kallmeyer, J., Ostertag-Henning, C., … & Rudloff, A. (2021). Enabling large-scale hydrogen storage in porous media–the scientific challenges. Energy & Environmental Science, 14(2), 853-864.
About the speaker
Maja Rücker is Assistant Professor in the Energy Technology Group in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Eindhoven University of Technology and is currently a Visiting Researcher in the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. She holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering for a joint project of the Rock & Fluid Physics team at Shell Global Solutions International B.V. and Imperial College London, where she continued working as a Research Associate from 2019-2020. Her current research, focusing on Digital Rocks for Subsurface Hydrogen Storage, is supported through a personal grant by NWO, DeepNL. Maja Rücker got awarded the Interpore Porelab Award for Young Researchers and the Veni grant from the NWO Talent Programme.