Derisking Compressed Air Energy Storage in Porous Media in Depleted Gas Fields and Aquifers

Funder	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Recipient Organization	Imperial College London
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2024
End Date	Sep 26, 2028
Duration	1,457 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2930354`

Grant Description

The proposed research project is aimed at the predictive modelling of caprock integrity of depleted gas fields and aquifers during compressed air storage cycles.

The project will model porous media in a fully coupled poro-thermo-elastic manner, considering the potential nucleation and growth of fractures as well as the permeability changes of existing and incipient fractures at the reservoir caprock interface.

The study will take into account caprock property variations, examining their behaviour systematically within the parametric space.