161 |
Thermodynamic apparatus and method of operating same |
JP1553979 |
1979-02-15 |
JPS54118913A |
1979-09-14 |
HERUMUUTO BUUFUNERU; OTSUTOO BERUNAUERU |
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162 |
Heat exchanger of directtcontact heat accumulator type |
JP444078 |
1978-01-20 |
JPS5392956A |
1978-08-15 |
BIRU RII PIASU |
Regenerative heat exchanger consists of a thermally insulated pressure vessel with a liq. inlet at the bottom and a branch for the vapour of this liq. near the top. It contains a packing of high thermal capacity consisting of closely packed ceramic material to give thermal storage. It has a liq. level controller by means of which the liq. level in the vessel can be adjusted and controlled. This has a sensor for the level which falls when energy is being absorbed by the packing and rises when it is being released. The packing is spheriodial in form. It can contain an inorganic salt (e.g. BiCl3, SnCl2, ZnCl2, etc.) or a salt eutectic (e.g. 50/50 NaCl/BeCl2). Used in processes where heat is generated intermittently and where an effective and economical storage is desirable. |
163 |
Netsuenerugichikusekisochi |
JP738475 |
1975-01-16 |
JPS5179852A |
1976-07-12 |
BERUNAARU KONTSUURU |
An energy accumulator for storing large quantities of heat in the form of superheated water includes an excavation which is divided into upper and lower compartments by a horizontal diaphragm. The lower compartment is filled with superheated water from a heat source such as a nuclear or other steam generating facility. The water in the lower compartment is maintained in its superheated condition by a heavy mass of water in the upper compartment which applies its weight and pressure through the diaphragm to the superheated water in the lower compartment. Means are provided for drawing the superheated water from the lower compartment to a heat exchanger in which the heat is transmitted to a fluid heat carrying medium which can be pumped to a location where the heat is to be used, such as for urban heating. The circulatory system associated with the superheated water is closed and the mass of water employed in the system is constant. Means are provided for maintaining the diaphragm in a flat, horizontal position. Means also are provided of the diaphragm. |
164 |
JPS5047043A - |
JP7889573 |
1973-07-12 |
JPS5047043A |
1975-04-26 |
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165 |
JPS507290B1 - |
JP7110567 |
1967-11-04 |
JPS507290B1 |
1975-03-24 |
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166 |
Hybrid Pumped Thermal Systems |
US16354824 |
2019-03-15 |
US20190212070A1 |
2019-07-11 |
Robert B. Laughlin; Philippe Larochelle; Nicholas Cizek |
The present disclosure provides pumped thermal energy storage systems that can be used to store electrical energy. A pumped thermal energy storage system of the present disclosure can store energy by operating as a heat pump or refrigerator, whereby net work input can be used to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side. A working fluid of the system is capable of efficient heat exchange with heat storage fluids on a hot side of the system and on a cold side of the system. The system can extract energy by operating as a heat engine transferring heat from the hot side to the cold side, which can result in net work output. Systems of the present disclosure can employ solar heating for improved storage efficiency. |
167 |
Method and apparatus for power storage |
US15863081 |
2018-01-05 |
US10138810B2 |
2018-11-27 |
Robert Morgan; Stuart Nelmes; Nicola Castellucci; Stephen Gareth Brett |
Cryogenic energy storage systems, and particularly methods for capturing cold energy and re-using that captured cold energy, are disclosed. The systems allow cold thermal energy from the power recovery process of a cryogenic energy storage system to be captured effectively, to be stored, and to be effectively utilised. The captured cold energy could be reused in any co-located process, for example to enhance the efficiency of production of the cryogen, to enhance the efficiency of production of liquid natural gas, and/or to provide refrigeration. The systems are such that the cold energy can be stored at very low pressures, cold energy can be recovered from various components of the system, and/or cold energy can be stored in more than one thermal store. |
168 |
METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR THERMAL ENHANCEMENT |
US15855048 |
2017-12-27 |
US20180252477A1 |
2018-09-06 |
Russell Goldfarbmuren |
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for thermal enhancement. Thermal enhancement may include absorbing heat from one or more devices. In some cases, this may improve the efficiency of the one or more devices. In general, a phase transition may be induced in a storage material. The storage material may be combined with a freeze point suppressant in order to reduce its melt point. The mixture may be used to boost the performance of device, such as an electrical generator, a heat engine, a refrigerator, and/or a freezer. The freeze point suppressant and storage material may be separated. By delaying the periods between each stage by prescribed amounts, the methods, systems, and devices may be able to shift the availability of electricity to the user and/or otherwise boost a device at different times in some cases. |
169 |
Systems and methods for energy storage and retrieval |
US14668610 |
2015-03-25 |
US10012448B2 |
2018-07-03 |
Robert B. Laughlin; Philippe Larochelle; Nicholas Cizek |
The present disclosure provides pumped thermal energy storage systems that can be used to store electrical energy. A pumped thermal energy storage system of the present disclosure can store energy by operating as a heat pump or refrigerator, whereby net work input can be used to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side. A working fluid of the system is capable of efficient heat exchange with heat storage fluids on a hot side of the system and on a cold side of the system. The system can extract energy by operating as a heat engine transferring heat from the hot side to the cold side, which can result in net work output. Systems of the present disclosure can employ solar heating for improved storage efficiency. |
170 |
Combined cycle plant with thermal energy storage |
US14659366 |
2015-03-16 |
US10012113B2 |
2018-07-03 |
Vassilios Vamvas |
A combined cycle power plant for frequent stops and startups comprises at least one gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator, at least one steam turbine and a thermal energy storage and retrieval system utilizing latent heat of fusion. Phase change materials receive thermal charge from two sources: (a) renewable energy generation plants, when their production exceeds demand and (b) gas turbine exhaust heat. The thermal energy storage and retrieval system, discharges efficiently thermal energy for steam production, which keeps the at least one steam turbine preheated and ready for fast startups, thus increasing the plant's flexibility and efficiency.A novel two stage latent thermal energy storage system provides at least supercritical steam. |
171 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWER STORAGE |
US15863081 |
2018-01-05 |
US20180128171A1 |
2018-05-10 |
Robert Morgan; Stuart Nelmes; Nicola Castellucci; Stephen Gareth Brett |
Cryogenic energy storage systems, and particularly methods for capturing cold energy and re-using that captured cold energy, are disclosed. The systems allow cold thermal energy from the power recovery process of a cryogenic energy storage system to be captured effectively, to be stored, and to be effectively utilised. The captured cold energy could be reused in any co-located process, for example to enhance the efficiency of production of the cryogen, to enhance the efficiency of production of liquid natural gas, and/or to provide refrigeration. The systems are such that the cold energy can be stored at very low pressures, cold energy can be recovered from various components of the system, and/or cold energy can be stored in more than one thermal store. |
172 |
Cryogenic engine system |
US14760112 |
2014-01-13 |
US09884546B2 |
2018-02-06 |
Michael Ayres; Henry Clarke; Michael Dearman |
A system (100) comprises a cryogenic engine (16) and a power generation apparatus, wherein the cryogenic engine and the power generation apparatus are coupled with each other to permit the cryogenic engine (16) and the power generation apparatus to work co-operatively with each other in a synergistic manner. The cryogenic engine (16) and the power generation apparatus are mechanically and optionally thermally coupled with each other so that the output means is shared between the cryogenic engine (16) and the power generation apparatus and that the two systems can be operated in the most power efficient manner and may also thermally interact to the potential advantage of both performance and economy. |
173 |
Power generation using independent dual organic Rankine cycles from waste heat systems in diesel hydrotreating-hydrocracking and continuous-catalytic-cracking-aromatics facilities |
US15087440 |
2016-03-31 |
US09803507B2 |
2017-10-31 |
Mahmoud Bahy Mahmoud Noureldin; Hani Mohammed Al Saed; Ahmad Saleh Bunaiyan |
Optimizing power generation from waste heat in large industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries by utilizing a subset of all available hot source streams selected based, in part, on considerations for example, capital cost, ease of operation, economics of scale power generation, a number of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) machines to be operated, operating conditions of each ORC machine, combinations of them, or other considerations are described. Subsets of hot sources that are optimized to provide waste heat to one or more ORC machines for power generation are also described. Further, recognizing that the utilization of waste heat from all available hot sources in a mega-site such as a petroleum refinery and aromatics complex is not necessarily or not always the best option, hot source units in petroleum refineries from which waste heat can be consolidated to power the one or more ORC machines are identified. |
174 |
CHARGING SYSTEM WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMAL ENERGY EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGING HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMAL ENERGY EXCHANGE SYSTEM WITH THERMAL ENERGY |
US15504456 |
2015-03-20 |
US20170261268A1 |
2017-09-14 |
TILL ANDREAS BARMEIER; VOLKER SEIDEL; HENRIK STIESDAL |
A charging system with a least one high temperature thermal energy exchange system is provided. The high temperature thermal energy exchange system includes at least one heat exchange chamber with chamber boundaries which surround at least one chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber, wherein the chamber boundaries include at least one inlet opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the chamber interior and at least one outlet opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the chamber interior. At least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid. |
175 |
METHOD FOR COMPENSATING LOAD PEAKS DURING ENERGY GENERATION AND/OR FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND/OR FOR GENERATING HYDROGEN, AND A STORAGE POWER PLANT |
US15519622 |
2015-10-16 |
US20170241296A1 |
2017-08-24 |
Klaus KNOP; Robert Joseph PFAB; Lars ZOELLNER |
A method is presented and described for compensating load peaks during the generating of electrical energy and/or for the generating of electrical energy by utilizing the heat of heated carrier gas (2) for the electricity generation, and/or for the utilization of the heat of heated carrier gas (2) for hydrogen generation, comprising the steps: heating of carrier gas (2), especially hot air, in at least one gas heater (4a-d), wherein hot carrier gas (2) with a specified target charge temperature exits from the gas heater (4a-d), thermal charging of at least one heat storage module (5a-d) of a plurality of heat storage modules (5a-d) of the storage power station (1) by releasing heat from the hot carrier gas (2) from the gas heater (4a-d) to a heat storage material of the heat storage module (5a-d), time-delayed thermal discharge of at least one heat storage module (5a-d), preferably of a plurality of heat storage modules (5a-d), wherein colder carrier gas (2), especially cold air, flows through at least one heat storage module (5a-d) and heat from the heat storage material is transferred to the colder carrier gas (2) for the heating of the carrier gas (2) and wherein heated carrier gas (2) with a specified discharge temperature exits from the heat storage module (5a-d), and utilization of the heat transferred to the carrier gas (2) in a process for electricity generation and/or hydrogen generation. |
176 |
Thermal Energy Storage and Retrieval Systems |
US15369200 |
2016-12-05 |
US20170219293A1 |
2017-08-03 |
Sten KREUGER |
A thermal energy storage and retrieval device includes at least one working fluid and a plurality of thermodynamic circuits. Each thermodynamic circuit has a first process exchanging heat with a first material in a first temperature range common for all of the thermodynamic circuits. Each thermodynamic circuit also has a second process exchanging heat with a second material in a second temperature range. The second material comprises a heat storage material or a working fluid in another circuit or another device. Each thermodynamic circuit includes a gas pressure changing device and a liquid pressure changing device. |
177 |
Effective and scalable solar energy collection and storage |
US14345933 |
2012-09-28 |
US09705449B2 |
2017-07-11 |
Kazuaki Yazawa; Zhixi Bian; Ali Shakouri |
Solar energy collection and storage systems and processes of using such systems. Non-direct solar energy collection and storage systems can generate electricity from solar radiation using a solar thermoelectric generator and at the same time capture solar thermal energy in a working fluid. The working fluid can then transfer the heat to a thermal storage medium where the heat can be retrieved on demand to generate electricity and heat a fluid. Direct solar energy collection and storage systems can store solar thermal energy in a thermal storage medium directly from solar radiation and the heat from the thermal storage medium can be used on demand to generate electricity and heat a fluid. |
178 |
METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF LOW TEMPERATURE HEAT TO ELECTRICITY AND COOLING, AND SYSTEM THEREFORE |
US15236136 |
2016-08-12 |
US20170159504A1 |
2017-06-08 |
Thomas Ostrom; Joachim Karthauser |
A method for producing electrical energy is disclosed which uses a heat source, such as solar heat, geothermal heat, industrial waste heat or heat from power production processes, providing heat of 150° C. or below, further comprising an absorber system in which a working gas, primarily carbon dioxide CO2, is absorbed into an absorbent, typically an amine, further comprising a reactor which receives heat from said heat source and in which the absorbent-CO2 mixture is split into CO2 and absorbent, further comprising an expansion machine, an electricity generator and auxiliary equipment such as pumps, pipes and heat exchangers. The system according to the method allows the cost-efficient production of electrical energy and cooling using low value heat source. |
179 |
Hybrid Pumped Thermal Systems |
US15440308 |
2017-02-23 |
US20170159499A1 |
2017-06-08 |
Robert B. Laughlin; Philippe Larochelle; Nicholas Cizek |
The present disclosure provides pumped thermal energy storage systems that can be used to store electrical energy. A pumped thermal energy storage system of the present disclosure can store energy by operating as a heat pump or refrigerator, whereby net work input can be used to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side. A working fluid of the system is capable of efficient heat exchange with heat storage fluids on a hot side of the system and on a cold side of the system. The system can extract energy by operating as a heat engine transferring heat from the hot side to the cold side, which can result in net work output. Systems of the present disclosure can employ solar heating for improved storage efficiency. |
180 |
High-temperature energy store with recuperator |
US14358150 |
2012-09-07 |
US09611761B2 |
2017-04-04 |
Christian Brunhuber; Carsten Graeber; Gerhard Zimmermann |
A charging circuit for converting electrical energy into thermal energy is provided, having a compression stage, connected via a shaft to an electric motor, a heat exchanger and an expansion stage, which is connected via a shaft to a generator, wherein the compression stage is connected to the expansion stage via a hot-gas line, and the heat exchanger is connected on the primary side into the hot-gas line, wherein the expansion stage is connected via a return line to the compression stage, so that a closed circuit for a working gas is formed. A recuperator is also provided which, on the primary side, is connected into the hot-gas line between the heat exchanger and the expansion stage and, on the secondary side, is connected into the return line, so that heat from the working gas in the hot-gas line can be transferred to the working gas in the return line. |