Liquid Air Energy Storage performance enhancement by means of Organic Rankine Cycle and Absorption Chiller
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In this paper, the potential of improving the round trip efficiency of Liquid Air Energy Storage was investigated through modelling and simulations using the numerical software EES-Engineering Equation Solver. Liquid Air Energy Storage is a novel energy storage concept whose performance is actually limited both by the inefficiencies of the charging (liquefaction cycle) and discharging (regasification and expansion) leading to a low value of round trip efficiency when compared to other energy storage solutions. In order to further improve the round trip efficiency, the opportunity to recover the waste heat released during the compression has been considered in this paper. Different integrated energy systems consisting Organic Rankine Cycle and/or Absorption Chiller were compared against a stand-alone Liquid Air Energy Storage used as a baseline. The integrated systems are compared in terms of different performance indices such as electric power output, ORC efficiency, round trip and overall efficiency of the stand-alone and integrated systems and utilization factor of the waste heat recovery systems. The results show that a tight integration between Liquid Air Energy Storage and Organic Rankine Cycle allows to significantly improve the round trip efficiency (up to 20%). Although the introduction of the absorption chiller decreases the specific consumption, the round trip efficiency is not improved due to the lower quality of waste heat available at the LAES discharge phase. Th…
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- Authors
- Tafone, A., Borri, E., Comodi, G., van den Broek, M., & Romagnoli, A.
- Affiliations
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Marche Polytechnic University (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Romagnoli, Alessandro
- Venue
- Applied Energy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-10
- Volume
- 228
- Pages
- 1810-1821
- ISSN
- 0306-2619 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2884443698
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 10
- FWCI
- 6.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Energy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Università Politecnica delle Marche (Università Politecnica delle Marche) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Research Foundation (NRF-ENIC-SERTD-SMES-NTUJTCI3C-2016)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Thermodynamic Systems and Engines
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Keywords
- liquid air energy storage, round-trip efficiency, organic Rankine cycle, absorption chiller, waste heat recovery, regasification, energy storage integration, specific energy consumption
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