Join our upcoming online course, “PORE 2-8.2: Salt Cavern Modeling and Simulation,” which will be lectured by Hadi Hajibeygi, Herminio Honório, & Mathias Erdtmann from Delft University of Technology.

The course begins on January 23 at 10:00 CET.

The development of salt caverns for compressed air and hydrogen storage is experiencing significant growth. Ensuring the safe and efficient operation of these storage systems requires a thorough understanding of the mechanical stability of salt caverns under varying operational conditions. This can be achieved through numerical simulations, validated by benchmarking against laboratory and field observation data. This course will address many of the challenges associated with simulating salt caverns, many of which are also relevant to porous reservoir modeling. Participants will gain insights into the complexities of these systems and the methodologies for tackling them effectively.

Hadi Hajibeygi is a professor of Geo-Energy Solid and Fluid Mechanics at Delft University of Technology. His research centers around advancing modeling and simulation sciences for processes in geological reservoirs – both experimental and computational, specially addressing multiscale heterogeneity and uncertainties across scales. Hadi holds a PhD with medal from ETH Zurich in Fluid Dynamics and was a Postdoc Scholar at Stanford University Energy Resources Engineering before joining TU Delft in 2013. The applications of his research include underground hydrogen storage science and technology, as well as carbon dioxide storage and well as geothermal energy exploitation.

Herminio Honório is a senior postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, ADMIRE research group. He works on elastic and plastic mechanical deformation modeling and simulation of rocks under cyclic loading. He has been the main developer of the open-source SafeInCave simulator which will be used in this course. Herminio holds PhD from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.

Mathias Erdtmann is a Brazilian subsurface engineer working at Petrobras for over 17 years. During the first 14 years, he worked on oil and gas assets, as a reservoir engineer of pre-salt heterogeneous carbonates and manager of a team of up to 20 geoscientists and engineers. The last three years he dedicated himself to CCUS projects, at first for EOR, then for carbon storage, being responsible for the engineering evaluation of the best screened opportunity for storage offshore Brazil, in a giant saline aquifer. While still being a staff of Petrobras, he is currently also a PhD candidate at TU Delft on CCS. 

Course Dates & Time:

• January 23 10:00-12:00 Central European Time
• January 26 10:00-12:00 & 13:00-16:00 Central European Time

Registration will remain open until midnight (CET) on January 22, so be sure to secure your spot before the deadline. Please note that the Zoom link and all other course-related information can be found within the individual lessons, which registered participants can access through their user account.