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Cyclic Injection for Commercial Seismic-Safe Geologic H2 Production
Lead PI: Mengsu Hu, Funded by DOE ARPA-E
Recent talks:
Mengsu Hu. Geologic hydrogen production: Geomechanics, reactive fluid transport, and induced seismicity. May 22, 2025, Frontiers in Geologic Hydrogen, National Academies meeting. Link
Mengsu Hu. Toward economic and seismic-safe geologic hydrogen. October 10, 2025, Warren Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States. Link
Mengsu Hu. Cyclic Injection for Commercial Seismic-Safe Geologic H2 Production (CyclicGeoH2). May 28, 2025, Subsurface Project Highlights, ARPA-E Subsurface Week, Washington, DC, United States. Link
Mengsu Hu. Geologic hydrogen: Where science meets engineering. November 13, 2025. Department of Earth & Planetary Science Seminar Series, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Papers as a Contributing Author:
Xia, Zhao, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Carl Steefel, Michael Manga, and Mengsu Hu. "Spatiotemporal monitoring of serpentinization in peridotite: mineral replacement, volume change and hydrogen production." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2026).
Rajabi, Roozbeh, Martin Stuefer, Mengsu Hu, Marwan Wartes, Amber Zandanel, and Mark Ivey. "Hyperspectral Imaging Techniques in Search of Geologic Hydrogen: A Review." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2026).
Huang, Lizhi, Quansheng Liu, Carl Steefel, Yiwei Liu, Mengsu Hu, Shimin Liu, Yiheng Zhang, and Xuhai Tang. "Generating H2 during the CO2 sequestration in basalt formations." Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources 11, no. 1 (2025): 4.
Multiscale Modeling
Multiscale Modeling
Laboratory Experiments
Hydrogen Residual Trapping and Hydrogen-Water-Solid Contacts
Paper:
Yu, Siqin, Mengsu Hu*, Carl I. Steefel, and Ilenia Battiato. "Unraveling residual trapping for geologic hydrogen storage and production using pore-scale modeling." Advances in Water Resources (2024): 104659. (First author was a PhD intern student working with Mengsu Hu)
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