CLIC Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection

Hydrogen distribution

solution mining for geological hydrogen storage

Reference product solution mining RER

Published Version 1.0.0 Latest published

Stable dataset identity solution-mining-for-geological-hydrogen-storage

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Unit
kilogram
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Published
2026-07-15
Version
1.0.0
Technology maturity
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Published inventory

Overview

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Description

LCI of solution mining for the future storage of 1 kg of hydrogen. Includes mostly the water demand, the water injection and the brine pumping. We use tap water for now, which is probably wrong. The salt cavern is assumed to be 500,000 m3 large. The available hydrogen amount is 4,000 tons per year, with a lifetime of 40 years, for a total capacity of 6,350 tons per year. Hence the inputs are normalized by 4,000 tons * 40 years. Here are some additional parameters. Water demand 10 m³/m³ (Niquet, 1978), Water demand, total 5,000,000 m³, Capacity pump 570 kW (van Ohlen, 2015), Efficiency pump 76 % (Flowserve, 2015), Pumping rate, water 250 m³/h (van Ohlen, 2015), Time for solution mining 20,000 h, Electricity demand pump 750 kWh/h, Electricity demand, total 15,000 MWh

Source

Scientific journal publication

C. Wulf et al. / Journal of Cleaner Production 199 (2018) 431-443

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Dataset details

Classification
Hydrogen distribution (energy/hydrogen/distribution)
Background database
ecoinvent / 3.7
Background system model
cut-off
Biosphere database
ecoinvent / 3.7
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Classification path: Energy > Hydrogen > Hydrogen distribution

Keywords

  • hydrogen
  • hydrogen distribution

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Technology profile

Technology characterization

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Commercial maturity stage
Early commercial
Design capacity
570
Design capacity unit
kW
Capacity factor
Not provided
Annual production volume
Not provided
Annual production volume unit
Not provided
Annual production volume year
Not provided
Plant lifetime
40 years

Inventory workspace

Inventory & impacts

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Precalculated screening profile

Environmental impacts

Results per kilogram, using UVEK 2025 and the ecoinvent 3.10 biosphere. Exchange rows are shaded from green to red by relative contribution to the selected indicator.

Climate change 0.0365127 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Screening result

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Show all 16 indicator totals
Acidification 0.000132335 mol H+-Eq / kilogram
Climate change 0.0365127 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram
Freshwater ecotoxicity 0.407419 CTUe / kilogram
Freshwater eutrophication 2.7823e-05 kg P-Eq / kilogram
Marine eutrophication 2.8803e-05 kg N-Eq / kilogram
Terrestrial eutrophication 0.000252889 mol N-Eq / kilogram
Human toxicity, cancer 2.8080e-11 CTUh / kilogram
Human toxicity, non-cancer 4.0036e-10 CTUh / kilogram
Ionising radiation 0.0456324 kBq U235-Eq / kilogram
Land use 0.323877 dimensionless / kilogram
Ozone depletion 1.0353e-09 kg CFC-11-Eq / kilogram
Particulate matter 1.0773e-09 disease incidence / kilogram
Photochemical ozone formation 8.3103e-05 kg NMVOC-Eq / kilogram
Resource use, fossils 0.841312 MJ, net calorific value / kilogram
Resource use, minerals and metals 1.1600e-07 kg Sb-Eq / kilogram
Water use 0.0177635 m3 world Eq deprived / kilogram
Calculation details

Profile uvek-2025-ef-v3-1-4e70d56a85b1 · artifact 4e70d56a85b1 · calculated 2026-09-30 13:58 UTC. These screening results do not replace a reviewed comparative LCA.

Dataset contents

Reference flows, emissions, technosphere inputs, and natural resources in this published snapshot.

Outputs

Reference flow

1 row

Reference production exchanges extracted from the uploaded inventory.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
solution mining for geological hydrogen storage
RER
solution mining
1
kilogram - Reference flow

Inputs

Technosphere inputs

2 rows

Linked foreground or background product inputs used by this dataset.

Exchange Reference / categories Amount Unit Metadata Climate change contribution
market group for electricity, low voltage
RER
electricity, low voltage
0.09
kilowatt hour -
0.0323015 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 88.5% of total
BAFU:2025
market for tap water
Europe without Switzerland
tap water
31.25
kilogram -
0.0042112 kg CO2-Eq / kilogram 11.5% of total
BAFU:2025

Parameters

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Quality and maturity

TRL scale Higher is more mature. 9: routine commercial deployment 8: commercial, but still niche or scaling 7: first-commercial or advanced demonstration 6: engineering-scale demonstration 5: pilot or large prototype 4: bench or lab validated 3: research-stage concept Technology readiness level
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: strong market- or operating-data basis 2: commercially plausible, but still somewhat specific 3: partly representative, with modelling or adaptation bias 4: pilot, proxy-based, scaled-up, or prospective 5: weak representation of the real technology state Technological representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: geography matches the claimed scope well 2: regionally credible, but broader or less exact 3: generic regional or global proxy 4: weak proxy or clear geographic mismatch 5: geography is effectively unsupported Geographical representativeness
1 to 5 scale Lower is better. 1: current for that technology class 2: slightly dated, but still good 3: dated enough to need caution 4: stale, pilot-era, or prospective relative to current practice 5: clearly not representative of the current state Temporal representativeness

Missing exchange uncertainty generation: Requested

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