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1 Jun 2023
The companies TEAM (leader), TTI, TUBOS REUNIDOS, TAMOIN, and IBERDROLA, as well as the Basque Energy Cluster Association (ACE) and SIDEREX, will receive 1.6M€ from PERTE (Spanish acronym standing for “Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation”) call to complete the H2SALT project. It aims to develop an integral system for hydrogen storage in a salt cavern and determine its technical and economic feasibility for industrial projects.
Following the final decision for the award of the grant corresponding to "incentive programme 4: basic-fundamental research challenges, innovative pilots and training in key enabling technologies within the incentive programmes for the innovative and knowledge value chain of renewable hydrogen" included in the framework of the Spanish “Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan”, 1.6 million Euro has been granted for the development of the H2SALT project (with code PR-H2CVAL4-C1-2022-0072).
The H2SALT project addresses one of the biggest challenges today: the integration of new products and solutions for the growing renewable hydrogen sector. At the moment, underground hydrogen storage technology is underdeveloped at national and European level, and there are no facilities providing this type of storage.
At a national level, underground storage is limited to natural gas; and at European level, although there are some salt caverns, they are used to store hydrocarbons but not hydrogen. There seems to be a lack of knowledge and some limitations to provide a large-scale, stable and seamless storage system.
Thus, over the next three years, H2SALT will research and develop the necessary technological solutions for safe, efficient and cost-effective underground storage of hydrogen in salt caverns, in view of achieving technological growth and progress derived from the technology development.
The chief aim of the project is to develop an integrated system for hydrogen storage in a salt cavern according to existing geological conditions, and to determine its technical and economic feasibility for industrial projects. The project includes: structural and behavioural analysis of gas in the cavern; tubular products for injection-extraction; auxiliary facilities necessary to treat gas before it enters and after it leaves the cavern; and business model development.
This project will be the result of collaborative work between the members of the group made up of four specialised companies in the sector (TEAM, TUBACEX TUBOS INOXIDABLES, TUBOS REUNIDOS and TAMOIN) and IBERDROLA, as a party interested in the potential of research results addressed in the project. Together with the contribution of TECNALIA RESEARCH & INOVATION and TUBACEX INNOVATION (centres included in the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network, also known as RVCTI, which will participate as subcontractors), as well as the participation of the Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) and SIDEREX (both associations in charge of communication and dissemination of results) and experts from the IGME (Spanish Geological and Mining Institute), will contribute to provide the H2SALT with a multidisciplinary team capable of managing a global project for hydrogen storage in salt caverns.
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