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Hydrogen Subsurface Storage

Experimental and Simulation Methods

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Jinkai Wang, Bruno Fernande, Baojun Bai, Mojdeh Delshad
  • Language: English

Hydrogen Subsurface Storage: Experimental and Simulation Methods explores the principles, methods, and processes of underground hydrogen storage (UHS) technologies. This book p… Read more

Description

Hydrogen Subsurface Storage: Experimental and Simulation Methods explores the principles, methods, and processes of underground hydrogen storage (UHS) technologies. This book provides an overview of UHS technologies and types of underground storage sites then delves into the details of reaction processes within hydrogen-rock-fluid systems, fluid flow mechanisms in porous rock, and innovative numerical simulation techniques essential for predicting operational efficiency. Readers will find guidance ideal for reservoir engineers, scientists, and students in the field of subsurface gas storage. Sections highlight the complexities of underground hydrogen storage technologies, equipping users to navigate the challenges and advancements in this rapidly evolving field.

Key features

  • Compares underground hydrogen storage technologies to mature technologies like underground natural gas storage for benchmarking
  • Explores hydrogen-rock-fluid system reactions and fluid flow mechanisms in porous rock to enhance storage efficiency
  • Reviews mathematical models for predicting hydrogen seepage in porous rock using numerical simulation technology for operational efficiency forecasting
  • Clarifies existing technology shortcomings and future prospects for large-scale, safe, and efficient underground hydrogen storage
  • Offers fundamental guidance on site selection, experimental processes, and operational evaluations for researchers, engineers, students, and various stakeholders in subsurface hydrogen storage

Readership

Scientists, engineers, and students who work or plan to work in subsurface hydrogen storage, especially postgraduate and doctoral students preparing to engage in experimental research on reactions in hydrogen-rock-fluid systems of UHS

Table of contents

1. Overview of UHS Technology

2. Type of Underground Sites for Hydrogen Storage

3. Interactions of Hydrogen-Rock-Fluid System

4. Fluid Flow Mechanisms of UHS

5. Numerical Simulation Techniques for UHS Chapter 6: Prospects for UHS technology

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

JW

Jinkai Wang

Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Materials at Shandong University of Science and Technology of Research. His research directions: Numerical simulation of oil reservoirs, numerical simulation of underground gas storage, underground hydrogen storage, CCUS, etc. He has completed many research projects on natural gas underground storage site selection and operation numerical simulation and has extensive experience in gas underground storage.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Dept of Materials, Shandong University of Science and Technology of Research, China

BF

Bruno Fernande

Bruno R B Fernandes is a Research Associate, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin. His experience includes software development for oil/gas and energy storage projects. He has worked on enhanced oil recovery, CCS, and underground hydrogen storage projects. He has extensive experience with modeling, simulation, and optimization of several engineering problems. He has used commercial reservoir simulators such as CMG, SLB-Eclipse, SLB-Petrel, SLB-IX, and Navigator in several field projects. He has been in charge of UT chemical and compositional gas reservoir simulators (UTCHEM-RS and UTCOMP-RS).

Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

BB

Baojun Bai

Dr. Baojun Bai is a Professor and the holder of the Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering Program at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T). He holds PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech and in Petroleum Geology from China University of Geoscience-Beijing. He has seven years of industry experience as a reservoir engineer and the head of conformance-control Team of RIPED, PetroChina. Dr. Bai was a post-Doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology before he joined Missouri S&T as a faculty member in 2006. He has more than 20 years of experience in the research areas of enhanced oil recovery, unconventional reservoir development, conformance control, CO2 sequestration and characterizations. Dr. Bai has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 120 papers in SPE conferences by 2020. He served as the JPT Editorial Committee from 2007 to 2013. He serves as the associate editor for Journal of Petroleum Sciences and Engineering, Geofluids, and Petroleum Sciences. He is an SPE distinguished member.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and holder of the Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering Program, Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T), USA

MD

Mojdeh Delshad

Dr. Mojdeh Delshad is a research professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She served as the Vice President (2013-2014) and the President/CEO (2015-2019) of Ultimate EOR Services LLC. She served as the assistant director for the Department of Energy-funded Center of Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) from 2009-2014.

She holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University in Iran and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She has over 30 years of experience in reservoir simulation and modeling multiphase flow, fluid property, and reactive flow with applications in enhanced oil recovery, subsurface contaminant transport and remediation, geothermal, CO2 sequestration, and porous media hydrogen storage.

Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA