Compressed Air Pipeline Pumped Heat Energy Storage
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Compressed Air Sources
There are multiple opportunities to harvest the energy required to produce
Compressed Air
from within the Recovery 2.0 system.
Commonly, electricity is used to operate a compression pump to convert ambient air into a compressed air under pressurized storage.
The preferred raw
air supply
source for the Compressed Air system is in the form of clean dry air routed through the internal air intake zone of the
Air Flow Funnel / Wind Tunnel
system.
A Recovery 2.0 system offers several location points where a heat exchange condensation/evaporation phase change takes place.
The opportunity to extract a
Condensing Stage
pumping action exists, this may be accommodated with the use of a
Single Cylinder Condenser.
A
Pressurized Hydro Storage
system provides a symbiotic opportunity to generate compressed air at the Hydro accumulator tower charging stage.
Providing a supply of incoming ambient air for the compressed air system,
by sourcing
clean dry air
from within the
Wind Harvesting
module may also help create a low pressure zone and may assist in driving Wind Harvesting efficiency.
Compressing gases like Air through a turbo machine is considered as a viable working fluid to operate a
pumped heat storage
system.
