Experimental and analytical investigation of near-isothermal pumped hydro-compressed air energy storage system

Hao Chen, Huanran Wang, Ruixiong Li, Hao Sun, Gangqiang Ge and Lanning Ling

Energy, 2022, vol. 249, issue C

Abstract: There is a global endeavor for decarbonization where the compressed air energy storage system has a critical role toward this goal. The efficiency of a conventional compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology is limited by low utilization of thermal energy and variable operating conditions. Therefore, a pumped hydro compressed air energy storage system (PH-CAES) is introduced in the present research and analyzed by using experimental and theoretical analysis. For the performance analysis of PH-CAES system, the main components and the whole system are precisely analyzed from thermodynamic points of view. The results show that the PH-CAES operates under a near-isothermal conditions, the polytrophic exponent n of air is 1.07 and 1.03 in power generation phase and energy storage phase, respectively, the experimental roundtrip efficiency and energy density of constant-pressure PH-CAES are 51% and 0.33 kWh/m3, respectively. Moreover, achieving high system round-trip efficiency is dependent on components of system with high individual efficiencies. When the efficiency of hydro turbine generator units is 90%, the round-trip efficiency of PH-CAES can reach 63%.

Keywords: Energy storage; PH-CAES; Experiment; Thermodynamic analysis; Near-isothermal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123607

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