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Storage of Heat, Cold and Electricity
Anastasia Stamatiou1, Andreas Ammann1, Andreas Abdon1
1Group Thermal Energy Storage (TES), Competence Centre Thermal Energy Systems & Process Engineering, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, CH-6048 Horw, Switzerland.
Abstract:
A promising energy storage system is presented based on the combination of a heat pump, a heat engine, a hot and a cold storage. It can be operated as a pure bulk electricity storage (alternative to Pumped Heat Electrical Storage (PHES)/Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)) or as combined storage of heat, cold and electricity. Both variations have been evaluated using a steady state, thermodynamic model and two promising concepts are proposed: A transcritical CO(2) cycle for the pure electricity storage and a subcritical NH(3) cycle for combined storage of electricity, heat and cold. Parametric studies are used to evaluate the influence of different parameters on the roundtrip efficiency of the storage system.
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