Biography
Donagh Tuite is a research engineer on the reversible hydrogen storage in clathrate hydrates project. A key challenge for the gas-network is full decarbonization; hydrogen is most likely to be required to achieve this – requiring the gas industry to return to production and storage activities involving hydrogen. Hydrogen storage is required to manage supply-side hydrogen variability, e.g., from intermittency of renewable-energy sources (green hydrogen) and local security of supply as well as handling demand-side variability. Whereas geological features (salt caverns, depleted gas fields, aquifers, etc) are identified as potential hydrogen-storage methods, Ireland does not have these readily available and needs to consider manmade storage technologies ranging in scale from local storage up to Grid scale for daily-to-weekly TeraWatt-hour hydrogen-energy storage. There are a number of chemical hydrogen-storage techniques with merits, however for a gas network there is an overriding need for storage that is large-scale, uses low cost materials and has low-energy intensity and operating costs which is why research into clathrate hydrates is relevant to the future of the gas network.
Role
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Earth Resources
Expertise
- Reservoirs and Storage