Abstract
Salt caverns are artificial cavities in salt formations, which are usually used for long-term storage of hydrocarbons such as black oil or natural gas. At least two facilities, located in MacIntosh, USA (PowerSouth Energy Cooperative) and in Huntorf, Germany (Crotogino and Quast 1981), employ salt caverns in combination with compressed air energy storage (CAES).
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The exception being small-scale CAES using high-pressure cylinders made of expensive carbon-fibre composites holding up to 300 bars, where the cycle number is limited by mechanical fatigue to a few tens of thousands (Ibrahim et al. 2008).
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Nagel, T., Böttcher, N., Görke, UJ., Kolditz, O. (2017). Simulating Gas Storage in Salt Caverns. In: Computational Geotechnics. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56962-8_4
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