The aim of this post-doctoral project, is to model the behavior of H 2 storage in porous media at a reservoir scale. One of the challenges is to take into account the bio-geochemical reactions that may occur in the reservoir during the on-site operations. This approach will be carried out in a unique pilot natural site (underground cavities in Saint-Emilion, SW France), which will be used as the model of formations above a H2 storage.
The objectives of this project are twofold: (a) to elaborate a mathematical model of population kinetics for hydrogenotrophic microorganisms under the conditions of shallow aquifer and vadose zone in the Saint-Emilion site, France and (b) to develop in the framework of DuMuX a C++) code to couple two-phase flow, transport, microbial population dynamics, and iogeochemical reaction processes in deformable porous media. The simulator thus constructed is designed to be easily used by the scientific community and to provide users with efficient algorithms for the simulation of UHS processes in porous media.
