salt caverns

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Strategic Petroleum Reserve taps Sandia expertise in salt

May 15, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Not all salt is created equal, so when the nation stockpiles oil in salt caverns, it’s important to know all about the salt itself, as well as the shape of the storage caverns.Decades of Sandia National Laboratories expertise on how salt domes behave …

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: oil, salt caverns, Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Storing hydrogen underground could boost transportation, energy security

December 9, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories …

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Topics: fuel cell, hydrogen, salt caverns, underground storage