Optimising production and long-term bulk storage of hydrogen from offshore wind in salt caverns in the Irish Sea

Source code is available on GitHub: wind-to-hydrogen-toolkit/hydrogen-salt-storage. A preprint has been published at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4960296.

Acknowledgements

This research was carried out as part of the H-Wind and HYSS projects. The H-Wind project was supported by a research grant from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant No. 12/RC/2302 – P2 and by the industry consortium members: DP Energy, Equinor, ESB, and Gas Networks Ireland. The HYSS project was supported by a grant from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and Geological Survey Ireland under the SEAI Research, Development & Demonstration Funding Programme 2021, Grant No. 21/RDD/725.

Contents

• Datasets
• Methods
  • Downloading and reading data
  • Structuring data and generating caverns
  • Cavern volume and storage capacity
  • Optimising storage locations
  • Compare / validate results
  • Plotting functions
  • Tests
• Notebooks
  • Geology and wind farm data
  • Exclusions
  • Cavern generation and capacity calculation
  • Optimisation
• Map

Installation

This project uses Python ≥ 3.11.

Clone the Git repository:

git clone https://github.com/wind-to-hydrogen-toolkit/hydrogen-salt-storage.git
cd hydrogen-salt-storage

Create a virtual environment and install all requirements:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run tests:

python -m pytest --cov

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page