TY - JOUR
T1 - Techno-economic analysis of developing an underground hydrogen storage facility in depleted gas field
T2 - A Dutch case study
AU - Yousefi, Seyed Hamidreza
AU - Groenenberg, Remco
AU - Koornneef, Joris
AU - Juez-Larré, Joaquim
AU - Shahi, Mina
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Cintia Goncalves Machado (TNO) for her assistance with the subsurface modelling and Gerrit Brem (University of Twente) for his helpful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/8/29
Y1 - 2023/8/29
N2 - Underground hydrogen storage will be an essential part of the future hydrogen infrastructure to provide flexibility and security of supply. Storage in porous reservoirs should complement storage in salt caverns to be able to meet the projected high levels of required storage capacities. To assess its techno-economic feasibility, a case study of hydrogen storage in a depleted gas field in the Netherlands is developed. Subsurface modelling is performed and various surface facility design concepts are investigated to calculate the levelized cost of hydrogen storage (LCOHS). Our base case with hydrogen as cushion gas results in an LCOHS of 0.79 EUR/kg (range of 0.58–1.04 EUR/kg). Increasing the number of full-cycle equivalents from 1 to 6 lowers the storage cost to 0.25 EUR/kg. The investment cost of the cushion gas represents 76% of the total cost. With nitrogen as cushion gas, LCOHS is reduced to 0.49 EUR/kg (range of 0.42–0.56 EUR/kg).
AB - Underground hydrogen storage will be an essential part of the future hydrogen infrastructure to provide flexibility and security of supply. Storage in porous reservoirs should complement storage in salt caverns to be able to meet the projected high levels of required storage capacities. To assess its techno-economic feasibility, a case study of hydrogen storage in a depleted gas field in the Netherlands is developed. Subsurface modelling is performed and various surface facility design concepts are investigated to calculate the levelized cost of hydrogen storage (LCOHS). Our base case with hydrogen as cushion gas results in an LCOHS of 0.79 EUR/kg (range of 0.58–1.04 EUR/kg). Increasing the number of full-cycle equivalents from 1 to 6 lowers the storage cost to 0.25 EUR/kg. The investment cost of the cushion gas represents 76% of the total cost. With nitrogen as cushion gas, LCOHS is reduced to 0.49 EUR/kg (range of 0.42–0.56 EUR/kg).
KW - Depleted gas field
KW - Hydrogen surface facilities
KW - Levelized cost of hydrogen storage
KW - Subsurface modelling
KW - Underground hydrogen storage
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.090
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.090
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85153797485
SN - 0360-3199
VL - 48
SP - 28824
EP - 28842
JO - International journal of hydrogen energy
JF - International journal of hydrogen energy
IS - 74
ER -
