Compressed air energy storage power generation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11319875-B2
Application number	US-201816498613-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2018
Priority date	Apr 21, 2017
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

In a main flow passage, a first heat exchanger, a first heat storage unit, a second heat exchanger, and a second heat storage unit are connected by a heating medium flow passage. The main flow passage allows a heating medium to be circulated. A sub flow passage includes a shortened flow passage which is a part of the heating medium flow passage and branches from the heating medium flow passage between the second heat exchanger and the second heat storage unit and extends to the first heat storage unit. The sub flow passage allows circulation of the heating medium between the first heat storage unit and the second heat exchanger. A first heating means in a middle of the shortened flow passage, the first heating means heating a passing heat medium, and a switching means conducting switching between the main flow passage and the sub flow passage are provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A compressed air energy storage power generation device comprising:
a compressor that compresses air;
a pressure accumulation unit that stores a compressed air compressed by the compressor;
an expander driven by the compressed air supplied from the pressure accumulation unit;
a generator mechanically connected to the expander;
a first heat exchanger that conducts heat exchange between a heating medium and the compressed air supplied from the compressor to the pressure accumulation unit so as to cool the compressed air and heat the heating medium by exchanging heat;
a first heat storage unit that stores the heating medium heated by the first heat exchanger;
a second heat exchanger that conducts heat exchange between the compressed air supplied from the pressure accumulation unit to the expander and the heating medium supplied from the first heat storage unit so as to heat the compressed air and cool the heating medium;
a second heat storage unit that stores the heating medium cooled by the second heat exchanger and to supply the heating medium to the first heat exchanger;
a main flow passage in which the first heat exchanger, the first heat storage unit, the second heat exchanger, and the second heat storage unit are connected in this order by a heating medium flow passage, the main flow passage flowing the heating medium so that the heating medium circulates;
a sub flow passage including a shortened flow passage, the shortened passage being a part of the heating medium flow passage branching from the heating medium passage between the second heat exchanger and the second heat storage unit and extending to the first heat storage unit, the sub flow passage allowing circulation of the heating medium between the first heat storage unit and the second heat exchanger;
a first heater that is provided in a middle of the shortened flow passage, and that heats the heat medium passing therethrough; and
a switch that conducts switching between the main flow passage and the sub flow passage.

2. The compressed air energy storage power generation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first temperature detector that detects a temperature of the heating medium in the first heat storage unit; and
a controller, wherein
when a first detected temperature by the first temperature detector is less than an expected temperature, the controller switches the switch to the sub flow passage and heats the heating medium with the first heater, the expected temperature being a temperature of the heating medium expected to be raised by the first heater, and
when the first detected temperature is not less than the expected temperature, the controller switches the switch to the main flow passage.

3. The compressed air energy storage power generation device according to claim 2 , further comprising a volume detector that detects a volume of the heating medium in the second heat storage unit, wherein
when a detected volume by the volume detector is larger than a set volume, and the first detected temperature is less than the expected temperature, the controller switches the switch to the sub flow passage, and heats the heating medium with the first heater, and
when the detected volume is not more than the set volume, or the first detected temperature is not less than the expected temperature, the controller switches the switch to the main flow passage.

4. The compressed air energy storage power generation device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a flow rate detector that is provided in a middle of the heating medium flow passage from the second heat exchanger to the first heater, and detects a flow rate of a passing heating medium; and
a second temperature detector that is provided in a middle of the heating medium flow passage from the second heat exchanger to the first heater, and detects a temperature of the passing heating medium,
wherein the expected temperature achievable by the passing heating medium is calculated based on a heating capacity of the first heater, a heating medium flow rate detected by the flow rate detector, and a second detected temperature detected by the second temperature detector.

5. The compressed air energy storage power generation device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a second heater that heats the heating medium directed from the first heat exchanger toward the first heat storage unit; and
a third temperature detector that detects a temperature of the heating medium directed from the second heater toward the first heat storage unit,
wherein, when a third detected temperature by the third temperature detector is not less than the first detected temperature, the controller heats the heating medium by the second heater.

6. The compressed air energy storage power generation device according to claim 2 , further comprising a fourth temperature detector that is provided in a region from the first heater to the first heat storage unit in the shortened flow passage, and detects a temperature of the heating medium,
wherein the controller adjusts a heating capacity of the first heater based on a fourth detected temperature detected by the fourth temperature detector.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• Kubo Yohei
• Matsukuma Masaki
• Matsuo Yuji
• Sato Takashi
• Nakamichi Ryo

Classifications

• H02J15/20

  using storage of pneumatic energy, e.g. compressed air energy storage [CAES] · CPC title

• F02C6/16 Primary

  for storing compressed air · CPC title

• F02C1/04 Primary

  the working fluid being heated indirectly {(in a fluidised-bed combustor F02C3/205)} · CPC title

• F28D20/0034

  using liquid heat storage material · CPC title

• F03D9/17

  storing energy in pressurised fluids · CPC title