HyPSTER : the successful completion of cycling tests
Hydrogen storage in salt caverns - HyPSTER reaches a new milestone with the successful completion of cycling tests
HyPSTER reaches a new milestone with the successful completion of cycling tests
Launched at the end of 2024 for a period of four months, the cycling tests for the HyPSTER (Hydrogen Pilot STorage for large Ecosystem Replication) project have now been completed. They provided an assessment of the salt cavern and the stored hydrogen while facing different pressure cycles, and validated the ability to commercially operate hydrogen storage in salt caverns.
HyPSTER is the first salt cavern hydrogen storage demonstrator which has been subsidised by the European Union (Clean Hydrogen Partnership). It aims at testing and validating the role of hydrogen storage in the hydrogen value chain, with the perspective to eventually replicate it on a larger scale and support the development of the hydrogen industry in Europe.
The project has just reached an essential stage in its deployment with the success of the cycling tests.
These consisted of carrying out around a hundred cycles of variations in hydrogen pressure inside the cavern. This allowed a proper study of the cavern and hydrogen’s response to different cycle profiles (slow/fast; low/high pressure variations), reflecting the variety of cycles which would be encountered in commercial operations.
The results are positive and validate the feasibility of commercial exploitation of hydrogen storage in salt caverns.
Zoom on the HyPSTER project, an essential link in the development of the renewable hydrogen sector
This demonstrator studying the underground storage of renewable hydrogen sets the stage for the creation of an industrial-scale hydrogen sector and its technical and commercial reproducibility at other sites in Europe. It is a further step towards flexible and large-scale supply of renewable, low-carbon energy.
About the project:
“This project benefits from financing through the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (now Clean Hydrogen Partnership) under the grant agreement no. 101006751. This Public-Private Partnership has received the support of the Horizon H2020 research and innovation programme by the European Union, Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research.”
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