by Robert Brooks | Dec 2, 2021 | Science & Technology
Good Morning All, I have been working with Sonal Patel, POWER magazine’s senior associate editor, regarding our work on a PTT sCO2-MGA based thermal energy storage system. She was doing a featured category on Thermal Energy Storage for their December issue Why...
by Gary Rochau | Sep 27, 2021 | Science & Technology
Microgrids are local, interconnections of distributed energy resources (DERs) that are the keystone to the new energy systems of today and tomorrow. New technologies have and are evolving that enable intergradation among DERs and optimization and analyze and employ...
by Gary Rochau | Sep 17, 2021 | Science & Technology
Thermal-power cycles operating with super critical carbon dioxide (sCO2) nearing commercialization and are positioned to have a large role in the power generation systems in the rapidly evolving clean energy grids. Much of the associated risks have been eliminated or...
by David Dewis | Sep 15, 2021 | Market & Commercial, Science & Technology
While Li-ion batteries will likely dominate immediacy requirements for Grid-support, intermediate and long term time shifting of energy will have to transition to new technologies. Currently batteries are viable for up to 4 hrs of discharge, but this will reduce over...
by David Stapp | Nov 7, 2018 | Science & Technology
Process Description The earliest variant of the PTT cycle, shown in Figure 1, is characterized by a symbiotic interaction between an air-Brayton cycle and a sCO2 Brayton cycle. The air discharged by the air-cycle compressor serves as a recuperation medium and is...
by David Stapp | Sep 13, 2014 | Science & Technology
Current supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycles are recuperated cycles because of the large amount of heat left after expansion through the turbine. The high level of efficiency of SCO2 cycles is largely owing to the use of recuperators to recapture this heat....
