Abstract:
A system and method utilising compressed gas according to which the gas is compressed at a location (10) above ground and transported to an underwater location(16). The gas is stored at the underwater location and later returned from the underwater location to the above-ground location for utilisation as energy.
Abstract:
Containment systems are provided. In one example embodiment, a containment system is provided, the containment system comprising: a container; and a skeletal reinforcement comprised of flexible fibers.
Abstract:
A gas container, comprising: at least a first section and a second section, the first and second sections being substantially hollow and movable relative to eachother; a liquid seal for sealing gas within the container, the liquid seal being disposed between the first section and the second section; wherein a first anti-corrosion coating is provided so as to float on the surface of the liquid in said liquid seals; whereby, in use, the first anti-corrosion coating is caused to be applied to at least a portion of said second section during motion of the second section relative to the first section. Also disclosed is a method of assembling a gas container. Also disclosed is a method of maintaining a gas container, the container comprising a first section and a second section, the first and second section being substantially hollow and movable relative to eachother; a liquid seal being provided for sealing gas within the container, the liquid seal being disposed between the first section and the second section, the method comprising: providing a first anti-corrosion coating so as to float on the surface of the liquid of said liquid seals; causing the first and second parts to engage or move relative to eachother, whereby the first anti-corrosion coating is caused to be applied to at least a portion of said second section during motion of the second section relative to the first section.
Abstract:
Gasbehälter (1) mit einem mit zumindest einer flexiblen Wandung (5) versehenen, größenvariablen Aufnahmeraum (2) für Gas im Sinne einer einfachen und zuverlässigen Konstruktion in der Weise ausgestaltet, daß der flexiblen Wandung (5) mehrere Ausdehnungsbegrenzer (8) zugeordnet sind, die mit der Wandung (5) beweglich sind und deren Formgebung zwangsbeeinflussen.
Abstract:
A transport unit includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged to provide a magnetic holding field for protecting hyperpolarized gas during storage and/or transport. The permanent magnets are configured in a relatively light weight manner to project a substantially cylindrical magnetic holding field or spherical holding field in space. The magnet arrangements can include primary magnets and field shaping secondary magnets which act to enlarge the region of homogeneity. The permanent magnet arrangement can also be provided with a cylindrical shaped flex sheet magnetically activated to provide the magnetic holding field. The permanent magnet arrangements do not require disassembly to insert or remove one or more containers of hyperpolarized gas in or out of the transport unit.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the field of membrane gas holders, or gasometers, particularly of the type that can be used to store biogas (organic gas) generated through the digestion of sludge, slurry and organic substances in general, or for storing gas emitted from slurry storage tanks containing fermentable matter. More in detail, the invention relates to an elastically stabilized gasometric dome (1) for a tank (2) containing liquid (3), adapted to delimit, between the surface of said liquid (3), the walls (2') of the tank and the dome, a variable volume storage chamber (4) for gas, wherein said gasometric dome (1) comprises: - a gas impermeable flexible membrane (5); - continuous fastening means (6) of an edge (5') of said membrane (5) to a rim (2") of said tank (2). Said membrane (5) is made of an inextensible material, having an extension of the surface thereof greater than that of the surface delimited by the rim (2") of said tank (2), and said gasometric dome (1) comprises a plurality of linear elastic elements (7) arranged orthogonally with respect to the rim (2") of said tank (2), adapted to cooperate with said membrane (5) to allow elastic expansion and contraction of said gasometric dome (1) and ensure the stability thereof.
Abstract:
A gas accumulator (10) with an inner gas accumulator bag (29) which forms a gas accumulator space (12) which can be filled with gas, and with an outer membrane (1) which surrounds the gas accumulator bag (29) in some regions, wherein the gas accumulator bag (29) and the outer membrane (1) are fixed in relation to a base surface (4), wherein the outer side of the gas accumulator bag (29) has at least one tab (20, 20', 20'', 20''', 20'''', 20''''') which is at least partially clamped together with an edge region of the outer membrane (1), and wherein the combined clamping is fixed in relation to the base surface (4)
Abstract:
A gas accumulator (10) with an inner gas accumulator bag (29) which forms a gas accumulator space (12) which can be filled with gas, and with an outer membrane (1) which surrounds the gas accumulator bag (29) in some regions, wherein the gas accumulator bag (29) and the outer membrane (1) are fixed in relation to a base surface (4), wherein the outer side of the gas accumulator bag (29) has at least one tab (20, 20', 20'', 20''', 20'''', 20''''') which is at least partially clamped together with an edge region of the outer membrane (1), and wherein the combined clamping is fixed in relation to the base surface (4)