984 Pages
by CRC Press

Rock salt formations have long been recognized as a valuable resource - not only for salt mining but for construction of oil and gas storage caverns and for isolation of radioactive and other hazardous wastes. Current interest is fast expanding towards construction and re-use of solution-mined caverns for storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen, compressed air and other gases.... Read more

1. Laboratory testing 2. Field and Geological Investigations 3. Constitutive Modeling 4. Modeling & Simulation 5. Micromechanics and Microstructures 6. Salt Caverns, Cavern Abandonment & Long-Term Integrity 7. Crushed Salt Engineered Barriers 8. Geological and Engineered Barriers 9. Energy Storage and Mining Investigations 10. Geological Storage of Hydrogen 

Biography

Steven R. Sobolik - Sandia National Laboratories (retired), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Mathew Ingraham - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Edward Matteo - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Melissa Mills - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Tonya S.A. Ross - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Donald Conley - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

John Stormont - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA