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

Applied Energy

Volumn 170, Issue , 2016, Pages 250-268

  Budt, Marcus ^a   Wolf, Daniel ^b   Span, Roland ^c   Yan, Jinyue ^d,e  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL   (Germany)

^b Heliocentris GmbH   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CAES; Compressed air energy storage; Energy storage; Energy system; Review

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED AIR; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY STORAGE; PRESSURE VESSELS; REVIEWS;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGES (CAES); COMPRESSED AIR STORAGE; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FLUID PROPERTY; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; INDIVIDUAL STRENGTH;

COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE;

COMPRESSED AIR; DESIGN METHOD; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCE; EXERGY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; STORAGE;

EID: 84960886420     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.02.108     Document Type: Review

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