Thermodynamic of a Novel Advanced Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage System with Variable Pressure Ratio Coupled Organic Rankine Cycle

Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 120411
Author(s):  
Hailun Fu ◽  
Qing He ◽  
Jintao Song ◽  
Xinping Shi ◽  
Yingping Hao ◽  
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Author(s):  
Shang Chen ◽  
Tong Zhu ◽  
Huayu Zhang

Compressed air energy storage is an effective energy storage technology to solve the instability of wind power in distributed energy resources. In this paper, a multistage compressed air energy storage system optimization model is constructed based on the energy conservation equation. Then the system is optimized by differential evolution to improve the system efficiency. Optimal pressure ratios are proposed to distribute the pressures of compressors and expanders. The impact of pressure ratio distribution curve on the system energy efficiency suggests that the change curve of the characteristics vary in different heat exchanger performance. Results show that the change of thermal transfer reactor performance leads to the variety of optimal distribution pressure ratio and energy efficiency of the system. In addition, the differential ratio distribution factor can be effective on the pressure ratio of reasonable allocation. System efficiency optimization results increased by about 1% compared mean value.


Author(s):  
Peter Vadasz ◽  
Dan Weiner

This paper discusses the thermo-economic analysis and optimization of a constant pressure Compressed Air Energy Storage system, in aquifer, subjected to an exogenous, periodic electricity price function of the interconnection. The target function considered is the net benefit of the plant. It is related to the fundamental planning parameters of the system like the compressor pressure ratio, the maximum temperature ratio, the charging-discharging duration ratio and the plant capacity factor. The results of the analysis permit to obtain the optimal values of the fundamental parameters to be used in the planning process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Chen ◽  
Tong Zhu ◽  
Huayu Zhang

In this study, the round trip efficiency of a multistage adiabatic compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) system was optimized by differential evolution (DE) algorithm, and decision variables were the pressure ratio of each compressor/expander. The variation of the pressure ratio of each compressor/expander leads to different inlet air temperatures of the heat exchanger. Thus, this optimization method provides more heat energy recovery from compression to increase the inlet air temperature of expanders. Results indicate that the optimization method is effective for the pressure ratio allocation, improving the system efficiency by ∼1% and exergy efficiency of the heat storage process by 5.3% to the maximum compared with an equal pressure ratio distribution A-CAES system. Besides, a uniformity factor of temperature difference (UFTD) of multistage heat exchangers is proposed to analyze the temperature uniformity of the multistage heat exchangers, which indicates that decreasing the UFTD contributes to an increased uniformity of the temperature field and an improvement in heat transfer efficiency. The study is extended onto optimal off-design system configuration and the recommendations are proposed, which provides a guidance for A-CAES system design.


Author(s):  
Jianting Sun ◽  
Hucan Hou ◽  
Zhitao Zuo ◽  
Hongtao Tang ◽  
Haisheng Chen

Wet compression is widely used to reduce compression work and improve efficiency in gas turbines. However, wet compression has not been industrially applied in the compressed air energy storage system (only few studies on isothermal compressed air energy storage system exist), which has an urgent demand to reduce the compression work. The high-pressure section of the compressed air energy storage system usually contains supercritical air, and the influence of supercritical wet compression is not yet clear. Thus, in this study, supercritical wet compression was numerically investigated in a centrifugal compressor used for the compressed air energy storage system, and its effects on performance and internal flow were also studied. The results show that the ideal maximum evaporation of water droplets in supercritical air is very low, which limits the maximum available water injection ratio; however, wet compression still has some benefits, such as increasing the total pressure ratio and isentropic efficiency and reducing the compression specific work. Moreover, wet compression reduces the diffuser loss but raises the wake loss in the impeller at the near-stall point. For this compressor, the optimum water injection ratio is 0.3%, which reduces the specific work by 0.65% at the designed pressure ratio.


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