The role of underground salt caverns for large-scale energy storage: A review and prospects

W Liu, Q Li, C Yang, X Shi, J Wan, MJ Jurado, Y Li… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve China's goal of carbon neutrality by 2030 and achieving a true carbon balance
by 2060, it is imperative to implement large-scale energy storage (carbon sequestration) …

The development history of accident causation models in the past 100 years: 24Model, a more modern accident causation model

G Fu, X Xie, Q Jia, Z Li, P Chen, Y Ge - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accident causation models mainly answer the following two questions:(ⅰ) why does an
accident occur, and (ⅱ) how does it occur? These models are the most important theoretical …

Discontinuous fatigue of salt rock with low-stress intervals

J Fan, D Jiang, W Liu, F Wu, J Chen… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
When used as compressive air energy storages, underground salt caverns are often
subjected to discontinuous cyclic force, characterized by low-stress time intervals (LSIs). In …

Dynamic prediction model for surface settlement of horizontal salt rock energy storage

J Wang, X Wang, Q Zhang, Z Song, Y Zhang - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to theoretically calculate the surface settlement of horizontal salt rock energy
storage, the conformal mapping method in the complex variable function was adopted, and …

Tightness and suitability evaluation of abandoned salt caverns served as hydrocarbon energies storage under adverse geological conditions (AGC)

L Wei, C Jie, J Deyi, S Xilin, L Yinping, JJK Daemen… - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In China, the storage of hydrocarbon energies is extremely insufficient partially due to the
lack of storage space, but on the other side the existence of a large number of abandoned …

A comprehensive feasibility evaluation of salt cavern oil energy storage system in China

X Wei, X Shi, Y Li, P Li, S Ban, K Zhao, H Ma, H Liu… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Large-scale underground oil storage has a great effect on national energy safety. China's oil
dependency has exceeded 70% for four consecutive years, so it is necessary for China to …

Evaluation of potential for salt cavern gas storage and integration of brine extraction: cavern utilization, Yangtze River Delta region

W Liu, X Zhang, J Fan, Y Li, L Wang - Natural Resources Research, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Yangtze River delta region of China consumes a large amount of natural gas,
but the current gas storage facilities of this region can provide only 19.6× 10 8 m 3 of natural …

Risk analysis of TBM tunneling projects based on generic bow-tie risk analysis approach in difficult ground conditions

A Sharafat, K Latif, J Seo - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Usage of tunnel boring machines has become the most popular underground excavation
method to meet recent underground infrastructure development demands because of the …

Comprehensive feasibility study of two-well-horizontal caverns for natural gas storage in thinly-bedded salt rocks in China

W Liu, D Jiang, J Chen, JJK Daemen, K Tang, F Wu - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Underground salt caverns provide ideal space for large-scale natural gas storage. But the
current practice of constructing single-well-vertical (SWV) caverns encounter serious …

Gas flow through cement-casing microannuli under varying stress conditions

JC Stormont, SG Fernandez, MR Taha… - Geomechanics for Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The cement-casing interface, or microannulus, has been identified as a common pathway
within wellbores for leakage of fluids yet little is known about its size or character. We …