Underground Cavern Storage

An in-depth discussion on natural gas storage in underground caverns may be found in Gas Engineering and Operating Practices, Supply, Book S-1, Part 1, Underground Storage of Natural Gas, and Part 2, Chapter 2, Leached Caverns, American Gas Association, Arlington, Va. (1990). 

For stationary hydrogen storage on a large scale, underground caverns or cavities are an appealing option, often offering storage solutions at a very low cost. Three possibilities of interest are salt dome intrusions, cavities in solid rock formations and aquifer bends. 

Lee Cl, Chang KM, 1995, Analysis of permeability change and groundwater flow around underground oil storage cavern in Korea, ImFuJii T (ed) Proc 8th Int Congr Rock Mechanics, 1995, Tokyo, Balkema, Rotterdam, p.779-782... 

Figure 1. Layout of the underground food storage cavern...

We estimated from the maintenance results that the thermal loss in Gonjiam underground cold storage cavern is mostly induced from the groundwater flow and latent heat of freezing due to the poor quality of rock mass of surrounding storage cavern. 

Park H.D., Synn, J.H., Park, Y.J., Kim, H.Y., 1999. A pilot study on the design of an underground food storage cavern in Korea. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 14 pp 6T-T3. 

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