General Info
Candidate: Joel Bensing, MSc
Chair: Chair of Petroleum Geology
Start: 06/2021
End: 05/2024
Candidate profile: Geologist with extensive field and industry experience in sedimentary systems and subsurface risk contexts.
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SCoRe A⁺ Research Detail
Barrier Rocks for Hydrogen Storage
Caprock integrity and geomechanical behaviour under hydrogen storage conditions.
Supervisors / Mentors
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. David Misch
Chair of Petroleum Geology, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Univ.-Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.mont. Reinhard Sachsenhofer
Chair of Petroleum Geology, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Daniel Kiener
Chair of Materials Physics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
🎯Targets
- Assess textural and geomechanical changes in caprocks.
- Evaluate hydrogen-induced processes and storage risks.
- Determine implications for reservoir integrity at long-term scale.
🏁Milestones
- Benchmark tests for key property determination completed.
- Hydrogen treatment methodology for caprock samples developed.
- Textural change evaluation for reservoir-like conditions completed.
🧩Work Packages
- Comparative analysis of old/new caprock cores.
- Microstructural and geomechanical baseline experiments.
- Hydrogen treatment under reservoir conditions.
Context H₂-C
- Enables risk-informed design for long-term geological hydrogen storage.