Heat transfer losses in reciprocating compressors with valve actuation for energy storage applications

Valve Losses in Reciprocating Compressors

New Valve Design for Flexible Operation of Reciprocating Compressors

Prediction of Heat and Mass Transfer During Compression in Reciprocating Compressors

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Considerations in Automatic Valves of Reciprocating Compressors

Several aspects related to fluid flow and heat transfer in reed type valves of reciprocating compressors are explored in the present work. Both n~erical and experimental results for pressure distributions along the valve in laminar and turbulent flows and results for heat transfer from the valve walls are presented and discussed. The presence of hydrodynamic instabilities related to self-sustai...

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) with compressors distributed at heat loads to enable waste heat utilization

Large scale penetration of renewable energies such as wind and solar into the electric grid is complicated by their intermittency. Energy storage systems can mitigate these fluctuations by storing off-peak energy for use at peak-demand times. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the most promising storage technologies due to the large amount of energy that can be stored at an economic...