The application of liquid air energy storage for large scale long duration solutions to grid balancing
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Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) provides large scale, long duration energy storage at the point of demand in the 5 MW/20 MWh to 100 MW/1,000 MWh range. LAES combines mature components from the industrial gas and electricity industries assembled in a novel process and is one of the few storage technologies that can be delivered at large scale, with no geographical constraints. The system uses no exotic materials or scarce resources and all major components have a proven lifetime of 25+ years. The system can also integrate low grade waste heat to increase power output. Founded in 2005, Highview Power Storage, is a UK based developer of LAES. The company has taken the concept from academic analysis, through laboratory testing, and in 2011 commissioned the world's first fully integrated system at pilot plant scale (300 kW/2.5 MWh) hosted at SSE's (Scottish & Southern Energy) 80 MW Biomass Plant in Greater London which was partly funded by a Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) grant. Highview is now working with commercial customers to deploy multi MW commercial reference plants in the UK and abroad.
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Highview Power Storage Ltd. base their charging unit on the Claude process relying on the maturity of the process and the trouble-free scale-up.
“Highview Power Storage Ltd. base their charging unit on the Claude process relying on the maturity of the process and the trouble-free scale-up [25].”
From Exergy-Based and Economic Evaluation of Liquefaction Processes for Cryogenics Energy Storage (2019) · cites this paper as [25]
Section 3, “Highview LAES system,” says Highview uses a modified Claude cycle refrigerator for charging. The Abstract describes mature components, and Section 5, “Scale,” describes increasing capacity with multiple commercially available liquefiers. The paper does not say Highview chose the Claude process because of its maturity or that scale-up is trouble-free. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Damak, C., Leducq, D., Hoang, H. M., Negro, D., & Delahaye, A. (2020) · International Journal of Refrigeration · doi:10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2019.11.009 · Cited by 175 · see citing works
“At off-peak times, energy produced by renewable sources is fed to an air liquefaction unit, while, when electrical energy is needed, the liquid air (LA) could be pumped, heated and expanded into turbines to generate power ( Brett and Barnett, 2014 ).”
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Hamdy, S., Moser, F., Morosuk, T., & Tsatsaronis, G. (2019) · Energies · doi:10.3390/en12030493 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
“base their charging unit on the Claude process relying on the maturity of the process and the trouble-free scale-up [25].”
Background
- Authors
- Brett, G., & Barnett, M.
- Affiliations
- Highview Power Storage (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Venue
- EPJ Web of Conferences
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 79
- Pages
- 03002
- ISSN
- 2100-014X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2101283822
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 1.46
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- EPJ Web of Conferences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Energy Engineering and Power Technology › Power Systems and Renewable Energy
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
- Keywords
- liquid air energy storage, grid balancing, long-duration energy storage, large-scale energy storage, waste heat recovery, biomass power plants, pilot plant, commercial deployment
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