LAPSE:2023.10605
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LAPSE:2023.10605
Experimental Investigation of Impacts of Initial Pressure Levels on Compression Efficiency and Dissolution in Liquid Piston Gas Compression
Barah Ahn, Paul I. Ro
February 27, 2023
Understanding how the pressure level affects the efficiency of liquid piston gas compression is essential for a greater applicability of the technology in compressed air energy storage. To explore the impacts, compression starting at three different initial pressure levels (1, 2, 3 bar) with a pressure ratio of 2 is performed, and how isothermal compression efficiencies are affected depending on the initial pressures is analyzed. Under the experimental conditions, higher initial pressure leads to lower isothermal efficiency. Air dissolution during the compression is also investigated because the chamber is a pressure-varying and a liquid-containing environment, where the gas solubility changes during the process. Evaluating the dissolution is critical as it affects the energy output when the compressed air is expanded to regenerate the energy. The changes in the air mass and the retrievable volume of the air after expansion are quantified based on Henry’s law. For a compression at higher pressure, because the air solubility is proportional to pressure, a greater reduction in the air mass and volume percentages is expected. This trend of the mass decreasing with the pressure level leads to less energy output than the originally intended output when the stored energy is retrieved in a discharging process.
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Compressed Air Energy Storage, compression efficiency, liquid piston, multistage gas compression
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Ahn B, Ro PI. Experimental Investigation of Impacts of Initial Pressure Levels on Compression Efficiency and Dissolution in Liquid Piston Gas Compression. (2023). LAPSE:2023.10605
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Ahn B: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
Ro PI: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA
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Energies
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16
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4
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1921
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2023
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2023-02-15
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1996-1073
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