DOI: 10.1016/J.ENERGY.2013.12.010 Corpus ID: 110098920; Design and testing of Energy Bags for underwater compressed air energy storage @article{Pimm2014DesignAT, title={Design
Underwater compressed air energy storage has the potential to significantly enhance efficiency, although no such device currently exists. This paper presents the design of an UWCA-FABESD utilizing five flexible air bags
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Compressed air energy storage (CAES) uses excess electricity, particularly from wind farms, to compress air. Re-expansion of the air then drives machinery to recoup the electric power.
Flexible underwater storage vessels are also known as Energy Bags (see Figure 4). Within the Energy Bags there are small pressure differences, which is maximum at the top of the vessel (Pimm et al., 2014).
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An Energy Bag is a cable-reinforced fabric vessel that is anchored to the sea (or lake) bed at significant depths to be used for underwater compressed air energy storage. In 2011 and 2012, three prototype sub-scale Energy Bags have been tested underwater in the first such tests of their kind.
Conclusions This paper has described the design and testing of three prototype Energy Bags: cable-reinforced fabric vessels used for underwater compressed air energy storage. Firstly, two 1.8 m diameter Energy Bags were installed in a tank of fresh water and cycled 425 times.
The Energy Bag was re-deployed and cycled several times, performing well after several months at sea. Backed up by computational modelling, these tests indicate that Energy Bags potentially offer cost-effective storage and supply of high-pressure air for offshore and shore-based compressed air energy storage plants. 1. Introduction
Overview of compressed air energy storage Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is the use of compressed air to store energy for use at a later time when required , , , , . Excess energy generated from renewable energy sources when demand is low can be stored with the application of this technology.
The number of sites available for compressed air energy storage is higher compared to those of pumped hydro [, ]. Porous rocks and cavern reservoirs are also ideal storage sites for CAES. Gas storage locations are capable of being used as sites for storage of compressed air .
With regard to stored energy, an Energy Bag with height of 40 m and maximum diameter of 40 m (and a volume of 35,705 m 3) would store 200 MWh if anchored at 500 m depth, assuming the most pessimistic expansion strategy was used.
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