Professor Hadi Hajibeygi

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Biography

Hadi is associate professor at TU Delft, faculty of civil engineering and geosciences, where he teaches and leads research on modeling, simulation and sensitivity analysis of subsurface processes for large-scale renewable energy storage, geo-energy exploitation, and greenhouse gas storage. He co-leads Delft Advanced Reservoir Simulation (DARSim) and Leads TU Delft Subsurface Storage Theme. He has been co-chair of the Interpore scientific program committee for 3 years, and is in the committee of ECMOR & MIT Energy Symposium. He was the most Innovative Teaching Talent of TU Delft in 2018, and holds PhD (with medal) from ETH Zurich, and has experience with Chevron Energy Technology Company in California. He did his post-doctoral research at Stanford University, until 2013 when he joined TU Delft. He became a Dutch National Science ViDi Laurette in 2019. Currently his research group are focused on developing scalable methods for subsurface energy storage, specially in the form of hydrogen, and novel CCS modelling techniques. 


All sessions by Professor Hadi Hajibeygi

From CO2 Storage to Hydrogen Storage
06:15 PM

Subsurface geological formations provide giant capacities for storing not only greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide) but also renewable energy, when it is converted into green gas (e.g., hydrogen) or compressed and hot fluids. While the utilisations of subsurface formations for greenhouse gas storage have extensively studied in the past decades, their successful contribution for cyclic green energy storage comes with new scientific challenges too. Hydrogen is expected not only to be stored safely, but to be reclaimed efficiently and with the same purity as in the injection phase. The critical stress also will impose restrictions on the volume, rate, and frequency of the storage cycles. In this talk, I will present the recent advancements from laboratory characterization to pore-scale and reservoir-scale modelling of hydrogen storage; built on our gained knowledge from CO2 storage projects.

Professor Hadi Hajibeygi

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

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