Liquid air energy storage: Potential and challenges of hybrid power plants

Applied Energy

Volumn 194, Issue , 2017, Pages 522-529

  Antonelli, Marco ^a   Barsali, Stefano ^a   Desideri, Umberto ^a   Giglioli, Romano ^a   Paganucci, Fabrizio ^a   Pasini, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air expansion; Cryogenic energy storage; Hybrid power plant; Liquid air energy storage

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPRESSED AIR; COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY STORAGE; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUIDS; PLANT EXPANSION; PRESSURE VESSELS;

AIR EXPANSION; COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGES (CAES); ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES; GEOLOGICAL RESERVOIRS; HYBRID POWER PLANTS; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; VOLUMETRIC ENERGY DENSITIES;

CRYOGENIC ENERGY STORAGE;

COMBUSTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POWER PLANT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85019878860     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.11.091     Document Type: Article

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