1st International Summer School on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS)

When: 11-14 July 2022
Where: Department of Geoscience and Engineering, TU Delft
(Hybrid Event)
Address: Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands

About the summer school

The transition towards renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, requires the development of large-scale energy storage systems to balance out the renewable energy production and demand. Storing renewable energy in the form of hydrogen is widely seen as a promising solution because of its high energy content and clean combustion products. However, due to hydrogen’s low density, large storage volumes will be required which exceed the capacity of surface-based storage facilities. Subsurface reservoirs such as gas fields, aquifers and solution-mined salt caverns are the only feasible option that can provide the large storage volumes required. This gives underground hydrogen storage (UHS) the potential to become a key technology in the energy transition.

We are excited to host the 1^st international summer school on Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS).

The school is supported by:

• The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) 
• Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
• DELPHI Consortium 
• Delft Energy Initiative 
• University of Stuttgart, CRC 1313
• Project-ADMIRE
• Delft Subsurface Storage Theme
• TU Delft H2 Platform
• NOBIAN
• TU Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (DCSE) 
• IEA - TCP on UHS.

We specially aknowledge our partners:

The summer course will be hybrid, and will cover many aspects of the UHS including:

• Policy, Regulating & Licensing (by the policy making experts from government entities)
• Lectures by the UHS scientists across the globe on different aspects of UHS:
  • Thermo-Hydrodynamics
  • Micro-biology & Geo-chemistry
  • Geomechanics & Geology
  • Characterization, Modeling, Imaging & Monitoring
• (selected) Presentations by the attendees (Poster + 3min Pitch)

Lectures will be given by a broad range of speakers including leading academic scientists, industrial experts as well as colleagues from the policy sector and EU funding agencies.

For whom

The course is developed for a broad audience who would like to learn more about the various aspects of UHS, with a specific focus on students and young researchers. During the course, the attendees should expect lectures from international experts, practical and group exercises, as well as site visits and cultural and social activities. In addition, each attendee is given the opportunity to present their research during a poster session.

All attendants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Only online-participation registration is possible after 15 April 2022 (As the in-person registration is over booked.) The online registration fees (after 15 April 2022) are:

• MSc and BSc Students:  €100

• Academics (professors, postdocs, PhD): €200

• Non-Academics: €300

Click here for online participation Registration Form (after 15 April 2022)

The updated programme can be downloaded here.

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