Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compressed air energy storage power generation device
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Application No.: US15572441Application Date: 2016-04-22
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Publication No.: US10344628B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Yohei Kubo , Masatake Toshima , Masaki Matsukuma , Hiroki Saruta , Kanami Sakamoto
- Applicant: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hyogo
- Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hyogo
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2015-096773 20150511
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/062823 WO 20160422
- International Announcement: WO2016/181798 WO 20161117
- Main IPC: F01K27/02
- IPC: F01K27/02 ; F01K27/00 ; F02C1/05 ; F02C6/16 ; F28D20/00 ; H02J15/00 ; F01D15/10 ; H02K7/14 ; H02K51/00 ; F01K3/12 ; F02C1/04

Abstract:
A compressed air energy storage power generation device 2 includes a compressor, a pressure accumulator tank, and an expander. The compressor compresses air by being driven with renewable energy. The pressure accumulator tank stores the air compressed by the compressor. The expander is driven by the compressed air. A power generator is mechanically connected to the expander and generates electric power, which is to be supplied to a demander. The compressed air energy storage power generation device includes: first heat exchanges for recovering compression heat; temperature sensors that measure the temperatures of the heat media having the temperature increased by the first heat exchangers; high-temperature heat medium tanks, each of which individually stores the heat medium depending on the temperature thereof; second heat exchangers for heating compressed air; a low-temperature heat medium tank that stores the heat medium having the temperature decreased in the second heat exchanger; and a control unit that switches high-temperature heat storage switching valves to thereby supply the heat medium from the first heat exchangers to either of the high-temperature heat medium tanks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180171832A1 COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE POWER GENERATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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