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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Alstom Technology Ltd, Baden, CH;
Inventor:
Gianfranco Ludovico Guidati, Zürich, CH;
Assignee:
ALSTOM Technology Ltd, Baden, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15B 1/027 (2006.01); F02C 6/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F15B 1/027 (2013.01); F02C 6/16 (2013.01); F05D 2220/62 (2013.01); Y02E 60/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
An energy storage system that includes a compressor for compressing a gas, a thermal energy storage for cooling the gas coming from the compressor to a given temperature by heating a thermal storage medium to store thermal energy and a reservoir for storing the compressed gas. The energy system also includes a heat recuperator for further cooling the gas coming from the compressor and thermal energy storage below the given temperature by heating the gas supplied to the compressor.