Rising air injection rates boost compressed air energy storage efficiency

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news at 28 Sept, 10:56 UTC

Chinese researchers have analyzed how different air injection strategies affect energy storage rates and heat losses in compressed air energy storage caverns. They found that a linearly increasing air flow rate can raise the energy storage rate from 85.5% to 87.5% compared with constant-rate…