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Simulation and Modeling of Subsurface Energy Processes

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2022) | Viewed by 3840

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bruno Ramon Batista Fernandes

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Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1585, USA
Interests: reservoir simulation; chemical flooding; thermodynamics; optimization; computational fluid dynamics
Prof. Dr. Kamy Sepehrnoori

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Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1585, USA
Interests: computational methods; reservoir simulation; parallel computing; enhanced-oil-recovery modeling
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Dr. Wei Yu

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Department of Petroleum Geology Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Interests: EDFM software; EDFM-AI history matching; shale EOR; complex fracture hits
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editors are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Simulation and Modeling of Subsurface Energy Processes”. Numerical simulators are important tools for subsurface processes. In the oil and gas industry, reservoir simulators are used to history match and optimize production. With the worsening climate crisis, new computational techniques have been devoted to other areas of the subsurface energy, including geothermal and hydrogen storage.

This Special Issue invites contributions on novel numerical methods and computational frameworks for the improvement in performance and accuracy of subsurface processes. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced time and space discretization techniques;
  • Solution schemes in reservoir simulation;
  • Subsurface reactive flow;
  • Geomechanics modeling and simulation;
  • Fracture modeling;
  • Multiphase flow in subsurface;
  • Subsurface energy transport;
  • Numerical methods on hydrogen storage;
  • Numerical methods on CO2 storage;

Dr. Bruno Ramon Batista Fernandes
Prof. Dr. Kamy Sepehrnoori
Dr. Wei Yu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • subsurface modeling
  • reservoir simulation
  • CO2 storage
  • hydrogen storage
  • geothermal energy

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Hydrogen Storage Assessment in Depleted Oil Reservoir and Saline Aquifer
by Mojdeh Delshad, Yelnur Umurzakov, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Peter Eichhubl and Bruno Ramon Batista Fernandes
Energies 2022, 15(21), 8132; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15218132 - 31 Oct 2022
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Hydrogen (H2) is an attractive energy carrier to move, store, and deliver energy in a form that can be easily used. Field proven technology for underground hydrogen storage (UHS) is essential for a successful hydrogen economy. Options for this are manmade [...] Read more.
Hydrogen (H2) is an attractive energy carrier to move, store, and deliver energy in a form that can be easily used. Field proven technology for underground hydrogen storage (UHS) is essential for a successful hydrogen economy. Options for this are manmade caverns, salt domes/caverns, saline aquifers, and depleted oil/gas fields, where large quantities of gaseous hydrogen have been stored in caverns for many years. The key requirements intrinsic of a porous rock formation for seasonal storage of hydrogen are: adequate capacity, ability to contain H2, capability to inject/extract high volumes of H2, and a reliable caprock to prevent leakage. We have carefully evaluated a commercial non-isothermal compositional gas reservoir simulator and its suitability for hydrogen storage and withdrawal from saline aquifers and depleted oil/gas reservoirs. We have successfully calibrated the gas equation of state model against published laboratory H2 density and viscosity data as a function of pressure and temperature. Comparisons between the H2, natural gas and CO2 storage in real field models were also performed. Our numerical models demonstrated more lateral spread of the H2 when compared to CO2 and natural gas with a need for special containment in H2 projects. It was also observed that the experience with CO2 and natural gas storage cannot be simply replicated with H2. Full article
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