A review on compressed air energy storage: Basic principles, past milestones and recent developments

Transient Analysis of a Compressed Air Energy Storage System

“…The efficiency of the system is higher for short storage periods with insulated tanks, reaching efficiencies close to 42%, which are similar to the ones reported in literature (Luo, Wang, Dooner, & Clarke, 2015), (Budt, Wolf, Span, & Yan, 2016).…”

“…The network power reliability is facing a great challenge with the rapid increase of intermittent renewable energy integration, the biggest challenge is filling the gap between production, storage and availability for the end user (Zhao, Wu, Hu, Xu, & Rasmussen, 2015), (Akinyele & Rayudu, 2014), (Beaudin, Zareipour, Schellenberglabe, & Rosehart, 2010), (Budt, Wolf, Span, & Yan, 2016), (Charan, Laxmi, & Sangeetha, 2017), (Soltan & Thorman, 2017).…”

CAES Systems Integrated into a Gas-Steam Combined Plant: Design Point Performance Assessment

“…According to [23], CAES might be efficiently and profitably used for off-grid and self-consumption applications, and for the provision of ancillary services on the lower grid levels. Such applications call for a small or medium size storage plant suitably distributed on the electric network.…”

“…On the other hand, such an improvement is expected to bring to higher investment costs and to a more difficult management of the power production. As a consequence, in both existing CAES plants (Huntdorf plant in Germany and McIntosh plant in Alabama), a constant pressure control mode has been preferred [2,23].…”

“…The air turbine (AT) is assumed derivate from a steam turbine, according to what reported in [2,23]. Therefore, the AT investment cost has been estimated by adopting a correlation developed for steam turbines given in [38].…”