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LAPSE:2023.8908
Blowout Prediction on a Salt Cavern Selected for a Hydrogen Storage Pilot
Hippolyte Djizanne, Carlos Murillo Rueda, Benoit Brouard, Pierre Bérest, Grégoire Hévin
February 24, 2023
To prevent climate change, Europe and the world must shift to low-carbon and renewable energies. Hydrogen, as an energy vector, provides viable solutions for replacing polluting and carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Gaseous hydrogen can be stored underground and coupled with existing natural gas pipe networks. Salt cavern storage is the best suited technology to meet the challenges of new energy systems. Hydrogen storage caverns are currently operated in the UK and Texas. A preliminary risk analysis dedicated to underground hydrogen salt caverns highlighted the importance of containment losses (leaks) and the formation of gas clouds following blowouts, whose ignition may generate dangerous phenomena such as jet fires, unconfined vapor cloud explosions (UVCEs), or flashfires. A blowout is not a frequent accident in gas storage caverns. A safety valve is often set at a 30 m depth below ground level; it is automatically triggered following a pressure drop at the wellhead. Nevertheless, a blowout remains to be one of the significant accidental scenarios likely to occur during hydrogen underground storage in salt caverns. In this paper, we present modelling the subterraneous and aerial parts of a blowout on an EZ53 salt cavern fully filled with hydrogen.
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blowout, flash fire, Hydrogen, jet fire, numerical modelling, salt caverns, thermodynamics, UVCE
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Djizanne H, Murillo Rueda C, Brouard B, Bérest P, Hévin G. Blowout Prediction on a Salt Cavern Selected for a Hydrogen Storage Pilot. (2023). LAPSE:2023.8908
Author Affiliations
Djizanne H: Ineris, Parc Technologique ALATA, BP 2, 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France [ORCID]
Murillo Rueda C: Ineris, Parc Technologique ALATA, BP 2, 60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte, France
Brouard B: Brouard Consulting, 101 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris, France
Bérest P: LMS, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Hévin G: Storengy, 12 Rue Raoul Nordling, 92270 Bois-Colombes, France
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Energies
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15
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20
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7755
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2022
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2022-10-20
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1996-1073
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