Coupling of an offshore wind-driven deep sea water pump to an air cycle machine for large-scale cooling applications

Matthew Galea and Tonio Sant

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 88, issue C, 288-306

Abstract: A system for using offshore wind energy to directly provide large-scale cooling through the exploitation of cold deep seawater below thermocline formations is proposed. The concept is based on an offshore wind-driven hydraulic pump supplying high pressure deep seawater to a land based plant. This pressurised seawater is used to power a hydraulic turbine which drives an inverse Brayton air cycle machine, and is then diverted to a heat exchanger to cool the pressurised air prior to flowing back to the sea.

Keywords: Offshore wind energy; Deep sea water; Air cycle machine; Large-scale cooling; Thermoclines; OWPAC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.11.008

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