Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions
Abstract Geological hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields represents a new technology to mitigate climate change. It comes with several research gaps, around hydrogen recovery, including the flow behavior of hydrogen gas in porous media. Here, we provide the first‐published comprehensive experimen...
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| author | Amin Rezaei Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband Ian Molnar Zeinab Derikvand R. Stuart Haszeldine Katriona Edlmann |
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| description | Abstract Geological hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields represents a new technology to mitigate climate change. It comes with several research gaps, around hydrogen recovery, including the flow behavior of hydrogen gas in porous media. Here, we provide the first‐published comprehensive experimental study of unsteady state drainage relative permeability curves with H2‐Brine, on two different types of sandstones and a carbonate rock. We investigate the effect of pressure, brine salinity, and rock type on hydrogen flow behavior and compare it to that of CH4 and N2 at high‐pressure and high‐temperature conditions representative of potential geological storage sites. Finally, we use a history matching method for modeling relative permeability curves using the measured data within the experiments. Our results suggest that nitrogen can be used as a proxy gas for hydrogen to carry out multiphase fluid flow experiments, to provide the fundamental constitutive relationships necessary for large‐scale simulations of geological hydrogen storage. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6154487740f54da5813bae3538d6991d2025-01-22T14:38:16ZengWileyGeophysical Research Letters0094-82761944-80072022-06-014912n/an/a10.1029/2022GL099433Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir ConditionsAmin Rezaei0Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband1Ian Molnar2Zeinab Derikvand3R. Stuart Haszeldine4Katriona Edlmann5School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKSchool of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKSchool of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKSchool of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKSchool of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKSchool of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Grant Institute Edinburgh UKAbstract Geological hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields represents a new technology to mitigate climate change. It comes with several research gaps, around hydrogen recovery, including the flow behavior of hydrogen gas in porous media. Here, we provide the first‐published comprehensive experimental study of unsteady state drainage relative permeability curves with H2‐Brine, on two different types of sandstones and a carbonate rock. We investigate the effect of pressure, brine salinity, and rock type on hydrogen flow behavior and compare it to that of CH4 and N2 at high‐pressure and high‐temperature conditions representative of potential geological storage sites. Finally, we use a history matching method for modeling relative permeability curves using the measured data within the experiments. Our results suggest that nitrogen can be used as a proxy gas for hydrogen to carry out multiphase fluid flow experiments, to provide the fundamental constitutive relationships necessary for large‐scale simulations of geological hydrogen storage.https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099433geological hydrogen storagehydrogen flowporous mediahydrogen recoveryhydrogen storagereservoir pressure |
| spellingShingle | Amin Rezaei Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband Ian Molnar Zeinab Derikvand R. Stuart Haszeldine Katriona Edlmann Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions Geophysical Research Letters geological hydrogen storage hydrogen flow porous media hydrogen recovery hydrogen storage reservoir pressure |
| title | Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions |
| title_full | Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions |
| title_fullStr | Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions |
| title_short | Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions |
| title_sort | relative permeability of hydrogen and aqueous brines in sandstones and carbonates at reservoir conditions |
| topic | geological hydrogen storage hydrogen flow porous media hydrogen recovery hydrogen storage reservoir pressure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099433 |
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