Scottish team to explore underground Hydrogen storage

The project, HyStorPor (Hydrogen Storage in Porous Media), is designed to increase understanding of the whole hydrogen storage system, from fundamental physical and chemical processes to social acceptability.

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Whilst commercial scale underground storage of hydrogen has never been tried before researchers claim that it could be one of the keys to overcoming the intermittency issues associated with wind and solar energy.

The large-scale generation and storage of hydrogen, generated from excess renewable energy or steam reformation of methane with carbon capture and storage (CCS), could also replace methane for domestic heating, thereby reducing carbon emissions from one of the UK’s largest sources.

Led by Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Edinburgh, and also including scientists from Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University,  Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and Imperial College London the team will use advanced experimental facilities in Edinburgh to investigate a number of questions affecting the commercial development of hydrogen storage.