据烃加工新闻5月23日消息称，三菱电力美洲公司和德州Brine已签署协议，开发大规模的长期氢储存解决方案，以支持美国东部的脱碳努力。氢的长期储存是向零碳能源过渡的关键技术。
此次合作扩大了三菱电力公司在北美战略位置的盐穴中安全、经济地储存氢气的能力。德州Brine及其附属公司在纽约、弗吉尼亚、德克萨斯和路易斯安那州拥有盐场，这将使其能够进入东北部、中大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸的主要装载中心。
盐矿床是一种独特的地质特征，可以通过开采溶洞来提供安全、可靠和经济的储气库。氢气在美国墨西哥湾沿岸的盐洞中储存了数十年。在其他地区扩大盐穴用于氢能源储存的使用，为在美国各地建立清洁能源基础设施提供了一个重要机会，使电力、交通和制造业等以净零碳排放为目标的行业受益。
德州Brine的合作通过在靠近项目的地方设置大规模的氢存储，使其能够获得经济的公用事业规模的可再生能源存储，从而补充了三菱电力不断增长的氢准备燃气涡轮机组合。
三菱电力与德州Brine的合作还提供了其他共生利益。盐水是盐和水的混合物，在盐层的溶液开采过程中产生。然后它可以被用作化学工业的关键原料，或者它可以被脱水生产盐，用于食品、除冰、农业、工业和水软化市场。溶液开采过程的副产品是一个地下储存库，可以用来储存液体或气态商品，如氢。
朱佳妮 摘译自 烃加工新闻
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Mitsubishi Power and Texas Brine join forces for large-scale hydrogen storage
Mitsubishi Power Americas Inc., and Texas Brine Co. LLC have signed an agreement to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonisation efforts across the eastern US. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for the transition to a net zero carbon energy future.
This collaboration expands Mitsubishi Power’s capability to store hydrogen safely and cost effectively in salt caverns in strategic locations across North America. Brine producer Texas Brine and its affiliates have salt positions in New York, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana that will enable access to major load centres in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Gulf Coast.
Salt deposits are unique geological features into which caverns can be solution mined to provide safe, reliable and economical bulk gas storage. Hydrogen has been stored in salt caverns for decades in the US Gulf Coast. Expanding the use of salt caverns for hydrogen energy storage in other regions offers a significant opportunity to create an infrastructure for clean energy resources throughout the US to benefit industries such as power, transportation and manufacturing that are targeting net zero carbon emissions.
The Texas Brine collaboration complements Mitsubishi Power’s growing portfolio of hydrogen-ready gas turbines by positioning large-scale hydrogen storage in close proximity to projects, enabling access to economical utility-scale renewable energy storage.
Mitsubishi Power’s collaboration with Texas Brine provides other symbiotic benefits. Brine, a mixture of salt and water, is produced during the solution mining of salt formations. It can then be used as a critical feedstock for the chemical industry, or it can be dehydrated to produce salt for food, deicing, agricultural, industrial, and water softening markets. The coproduct of the solution mining process is an underground repository that can be used to store liquid or gaseous commodities, such as hydrogen.