LAPSE:2023.35809
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LAPSE:2023.35809
Carnot Battery Based on Brayton Supercritical CO2 Thermal Machines Using Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy as a Low-Temperature Source
José Ignacio Linares, Arturo Martín-Colino, Eva Arenas, María José Montes, Alexis Cantizano, José Rubén Pérez-Domínguez
May 24, 2023
Carnot batteries store surplus power as heat. They consist of a heat pump, which upgrades a low-temperature thermal energy storage, a high-temperature storage system for the upgraded thermal energy, and a heat engine that converts the stored high-temperature thermal energy into power. A Carnot battery is proposed based on supercritical CO2 Brayton thermodynamic cycles. The low-temperature storage is a two-tank molten salt system at 380 °C/290 °C fed by a field of parabolic trough collectors. The high-temperature storage consists of another two-tank molten salt system at 589 °C/405 °C. Printed circuit heat exchangers would be required to withstand the high pressure of the cycles, but shell and tube heat exchangers are proposed instead to avoid clogging issues with molten salts. The conventional allocation of high-temperature molten salt heat exchangers is then modified. Using solar energy to enhance the low-temperature thermal source allowed a round-trip efficiency of 1.15 (COP of 2.46 and heat engine efficiency of 46.5%), thus increasing the stored power. The basic configuration has a levelised cost of storage of USD 376/MWh while replacing the shell and tube heat exchangers with hybrid printed circuit heat exchangers is expected to lower the cost to USD 188/MWh.
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Brayton supercritical CO2 thermodynamic cycle, Carnot batteries, high-temperature heat pump, pumped thermal energy storage, renewable energies dispatchability, thermal energy storage
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Linares JI, Martín-Colino A, Arenas E, Montes MJ, Cantizano A, Pérez-Domínguez JR. Carnot Battery Based on Brayton Supercritical CO2 Thermal Machines Using Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy as a Low-Temperature Source. (2023). LAPSE:2023.35809
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Linares JI: Rafael Mariño Chair on New Energy Technologies, Comillas Pontifical University, Alberto Aguilera 15, 28015 Madrid, Spain [ORCID]
Martín-Colino A: Rafael Mariño Chair on New Energy Technologies, Comillas Pontifical University, Alberto Aguilera 15, 28015 Madrid, Spain
Arenas E: Rafael Mariño Chair on New Energy Technologies, Comillas Pontifical University, Alberto Aguilera 15, 28015 Madrid, Spain; Institute for Research in Technology, Comillas Pontifical University, Santa Cruz de Marcenado 26, 28015 Madrid, Spain [ORCID]
Montes MJ: Department of Energy Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Juan del Rosal 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Cantizano A: Rafael Mariño Chair on New Energy Technologies, Comillas Pontifical University, Alberto Aguilera 15, 28015 Madrid, Spain; Institute for Research in Technology, Comillas Pontifical University, Santa Cruz de Marcenado 26, 28015 Madrid, Spain [ORCID]
Pérez-Domínguez JR: Rafael Mariño Chair on New Energy Technologies, Comillas Pontifical University, Alberto Aguilera 15, 28015 Madrid, Spain
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Energies
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16
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9
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3871
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2023
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2023-05-02
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1996-1073
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