David IACOPINI
David Iacopini is associate professor of subsurface and marine geology at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) . He graduated and received a PhD on structural geology working on metamorphic basement (Variscan basement and Himalayan tectonics) and then shifted his career into marine geology, interpretation of seismic data and subsurface exploration including oil and gas and storage geology. He has been lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen where he co-founded the Geophysics MSc and has been director of the Integrated Petroleum Geology MSc and then Honorary S.Lecturer. His research includes rift tectonics (Tanzania), characterization of the Messinian crisis (offshore Lebanon), seismic characterization of seal bypass structure (North Sea, Lebanon and Brazil) and recent evolution of the Brazilian equatorial margin. He has been working on pre salt reservoir and the pre-Aptian rift evolution of the Campos, Santos and Mucuri basins. In his career his research has been funded by several energy industries. His current research activities partly re focused on hydrogen storage including coordinating the EU project on Hydrogen storage across porous media (SHINE, Marie Curie ETN), a national project on Salt storage (PNRR MIUR with the support of ENI). He is part of an experiment using Muon physics to image salt cavern (PNRR MIUR) and of the PNRR -NEST research network (storage). His group includes several PhD students working on various aspects of subsurface storage and rock physics.
Iacopini D. 1 , Anzelmo G 1. , Edlmann K.2 , Cascone M.3 , Russo G1, Rossi, E.1 Maniscalco R.4 , Parente M. 1 , Sabatino C. 5, Di Benedetto C.6 Colella A.1 , Balassone P.1, Cappelletti, P1 , Giovannelli , D.3, Pappalardo, L6. Simili M.5, Cella G.M.7, Visconti L.7,
1) Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse (DiSTAR)
2) University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences
3) Università di Napoli Federico II, Department of Biology
4) Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
5) Italkali, spa
6) Università di Napoli Federico II, Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale
7) Eni S.p.A,
Abstract
Salt caverns offer a promising option owing to their low investment cost, high sealing potential and low cushion gas requirement. In Italy, natural gas storage in underground reservoir has been practiced for decades but the hydrogen storage is still at its infancy as currently no sites for hydrogen storage exist in Italy. In this contribution we explore the option of salt caverns across the southern Italian territory. Messinian evaporitic units scattered across the Apennine represent the best option and therefore we do explore the feasibility of hydrogen storage in salt cavern (active or dismantled) across onshore salt mines. We do analyse the structural and stratigraphy and mineralogical context of the Messinian evaporitic units across selected onshore subsurface salt mines (Southern Italy), with a focus to the pure Halite units and the mixed Halite/ Kainite Units with thickness up to 200 m and at depth range of 200-600 m. For the suitable sites we discuss the structural context, the potential energy densities (cavern storage potential divided by the volume) and their relevance for hydrogen storage.
UNIVERSITE DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II / Unina
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