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Large-Scale Physical Energy Storage Technologies for Carbon Neutralization

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 2437

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Huan Guo

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Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: cycle construction of novel compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems; system optimal design methodology; modeling/analysis of off-design/dynamic characteristics of CAES systems; advanced thermodynamic optimization theory
Dr. Xuezhi Zhou

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Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: compressed air energy storage; large-scale heat storage; gravitational energy storage
Dr. Zhitao Zuo

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Guest Editor
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Interests: compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems; high-performance compressors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With global warming and frequent climate anomalies, the demand for renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy is increasing due to their cleanness and safety. However, due to the randomness, volatility and intermittency of the renewable energy sources, their large-scale development and utilization are seriously impeded. Energy storage (ES) technologies can reduce the impact of renewable energy instability in the power grid by delivering the energy between different times, so as to achieve the large-scale utilization of renewable energy. Among various ES technologies, physical energy storage (PES) systems have advantages of safe, large scale and low cost. Then PES can play an important role in the large-scale access of renewable energy. However, traditional pumped hydro storage technology has inevitable geographical restrictions, and is often not applicable to regions rich in renewable energy, so it is necessary to develop new large-scale PES systems, including compressed air energy storage systems, pumped thermal electrical storage systems, compressed CO2 energy storage systems and gravitational energy storage systems, etc. When these new PES technologies are connected to a renewable energy system, they face problems such as frequent off-design conditions, multi-physical processes coupling, unsteady operation and mismatched response speed among components. The current research in these areas is still insufficient, making the strict optimal design of new PES systems difficult. These difficulties not only involve PES itself, but also the deep coupling between PES, renewable energy, and other energy storage technologies. Therefore, we present this Special Issue.  

This Special Issue (SI) aims to present the latest progress in large-scale PES design and technologies to address the above issues, and to promote the large-scale utilization of renewable energy. Confidently, this SI will serve as a hub for contributors/researchers for sharing their interesting, up-to-date research results. The key subjects of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  1. Simulation of novel large-scale PES systems;
  2. Multi-objective optimization of novel large-scale PES systems;
  3. Off-design characteristics of PES systems;
  4. Dynamic and control of PES systems;
  5. Design methodology of PES systems;
  6. Economical and environmental analyses of PES systems;
  7. Analytical solution of PES systems;
  8. Experimental study on PES systems;
  9. Coupling and operation strategy of PES systems combined with other rapid ES technologies;
  10. Coupling method of PES systems and renewable energy;
  11. Characteristics of PES systems connecting to power grid;
  12. Optimal dispatch of PES systems in power grid;
  13. Analysis and optimization of components in large-scale PES systems;
  14. Wide-load design methodology of compressor/expansion unit;
  15. Optimization analysis of high-efficiency low-temperature thermal storage device.

Dr. Huan Guo
Dr. Xuezhi Zhou
Dr. Zhitao Zuo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • large-scale physical energy storage
  • renewable energy
  • design methodology
  • off-design
  • coupling

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Effects of Near-Critical Condensation and Cavitation on the Performance of S-CO2 Compressor
by Wenlin Xie, Yong Tian, Peng Jiang, Bo Wang and Xiang Xu
Energies 2024, 17(4), 854; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17040854 - 12 Feb 2024
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The supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycle efficiency increases as the compressor inlet condition approaches the critical point. However, the thermodynamic properties of CO2 vary dramatically near the critical point, and phase change is most likely to happen. Both cavitation [...] Read more.
The supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycle efficiency increases as the compressor inlet condition approaches the critical point. However, the thermodynamic properties of CO2 vary dramatically near the critical point, and phase change is most likely to happen. Both cavitation and condensation bring about significant adverse effects on the performance of compressors. In this paper, the quantitative effects of nonequilibrium condensation and cavitation on the performance of an S-CO2 centrifugal compressor with different inlet-relative entropy values are investigated. The properties of CO2 were provided by the real-gas property table, and the nonequilibrium phase-change model was adopted. The numerical simulation method with the nonequilibrium phase-change model was validated in the Lettieri nozzle and Sandia compressor. Furthermore, simulations were carried out in a two-stage centrifugal compressor under conditions of various inlet-relative entropy values. The type of nonequilibrium phase change can be distinguished by inlet-relative entropy. Cavitation makes the choke mass flow rate decrease due to the drop in the speed of sound. Condensation mainly occurs on the leading edge of the main blade at a large mass flow rate, but cavitation occurs on the splitter. The condensation is more evenly distributed on the main blade, but the cavitation is mainly centered on the leading edge. Full article
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Review of Coupling Methods of Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems and Renewable Energy Resources
by Huan Guo, Haoyuan Kang, Yujie Xu, Mingzhi Zhao, Yilin Zhu, Hualiang Zhang and Haisheng Chen
Energies 2023, 16(12), 4667; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16124667 - 12 Jun 2023
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With the strong advancement of the global carbon reduction strategy and the rapid development of renewable energy, compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology has received more and more attention for its key role in large-scale renewable energy access. This paper summarizes the coupling [...] Read more.
With the strong advancement of the global carbon reduction strategy and the rapid development of renewable energy, compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology has received more and more attention for its key role in large-scale renewable energy access. This paper summarizes the coupling systems of CAES and wind, solar, and biomass energies from the perspective of system topology, and points out the advantages and limitations of each system. It is shown that the coupling of wind energy and CAES is mainly combined in series and in parallel, and sometimes part of the wind power can be converted into thermal energy when coupled to CAES. The coupling between solar heat and CAES is an important form of coupling between solar energy and CAES. Solar-heat-coupled CAES mainly uses solar energy to heat expander inlet air. The coupling forms of solar energy and CAES are based on various CAES forms, various heat heating sequences, reheating, bottom cycle, and other factors. The combination of biomass and CAES is generally based on biomass gasification power generation technology. In the future, a wind–solar–CAES multiple coupling system is expected to become a promising large-scale form for the utilization of renewable energy, and this integrated system has great potential as a system configuration, but has some technical challenges. Full article
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