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Date
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5 MARCH 2012
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Time
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18:30 - 20:30
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Event Type
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Meeting
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Salt Caverns for Gas Storage and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
Speaker: Evan Passaris, Atkins.
Evan Passaris is a Technical Director and leads the Underground Storage team within Atkins’ Ground Engineering Division. He has more than 40 years of international and UK experience in engineering consultancy and is an internationally recognised expert in the geomechanical design of underground storage schemes. Evan was formerly I.C.I.’s Senior Consultant for their underground excavations in rock salt (storage caverns, brine production caverns, active and abandoned mines). As Postgraduate Sub-Dean for Newcastle University’s Faculty of Engineering he led an extensive research programme into the physical and mechanical properties of halites.
The UK is now a net importer of gas and new storage facilities are currently being developed in the UK within deep lying salt layers.
Underground salt caverns can also be used for compressed air energy storage (CAES) in conjunction with wind power. Energy is stored by compressing air in salt caverns when surplus wind power is available and decompressing the stored air to generate power in times of high demand.
The technology for the use of salt caverns for CAES is well established and there are now operational plants in Germany and in the USA.
Evan will describe how the geomechanics of rock salt influence the assessment and the design of salt caverns for both underground gas storage and for CAES.
Venue:
James Parsons Building, John Moores University, Liverpool
Note - Car parking charges may apply
The venue is 10-minutes-walk away from the train (Liverpool Lime Street) and coach stations (Norton Street Coach terminal). Municipal car park is available a couple of minutes away from the venue.
Meetings start at 18:30 and light refreshments are available from 18:00.
For further details contact Martin de Kretser
t +44 (0)161 927 8257
e martin.de.kretser@aecom.com
Note: This meeting replaces the one previously advertised on oils storage tanks.
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