... of brine solution into the subsurface inves- tigated under the Compressed Air Energy Storage Project of the Department of Energy in the United States of America. The principal objectives in this investigation were two fold: (a) Prevention of any possible pollution of ground water by the injected brine...

...UNDERGROUND COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES G. C. Chang*, P. A. Thompson R. D. Allen"* and W. V. Loscutoff "Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA **Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA Batteffe Pacific Northwest Laboratory:r , Richland, Washington...

... Compressed air energy storage in salt caverns induces low-frequency cyclic loading effects in rock salt. An ongoing study is described which will furnish data for assessing associated stability of storage caverns. Some initial findings are presented from laboratory and in-situ mine tests...