Analysis of potential microbial activities in reservoir brine in response to hydrogen storage
Abstract
The availability of large scale storage solutions is considered to be key for establishing the highly anticipated ‚energy change‘ and hence of central importance for policies, industry, research, and other branches in order to secure energy supply. Underground gas reservoirs offer enormous storage capacities for green hydrogen when compared to surface based storage solutions. The current project aims at the investigation of potentially occurring, hydrogen-driven metabolic reactions which can be catalyzed by microorganisms dwelling in natural gas reservoirs. Potential responses of the microbial community endogenous to formation water samples will be analysed with respect to hydrogen exposure. Adequate formation water samples will then be selected and used for high-pressure storage experiments with hydrogen admixtures mimicking realistic reservoir conditions.
keywords renewable energy underground storage hydrogen
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Project staff
Andreas Paul Loibner
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Andreas Paul Loibner
andreas.loibner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97470
Project Leader
01.05.2021 - 30.04.2022
Hannes Konegger
Dipl.-Ing. Hannes Konegger
hannes.konegger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97472
Project Staff
01.05.2021 - 30.04.2022