Techno-economic assessment for a pumped thermal energy storage integrated with open cycle gas turbine and chemical looping technology
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Author(s)
Bahzad, Husain
Fennell, Paul
Shah, Nilay
Hallett, Jason
Ali, Naser
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Pumped thermal energy storage offers a high energy density, potentially resulting in a relatively low cost per unit of energy stored. In this study, two novel energy storage systems were developed. The first system was developed by integrating pumped thermal energy storage and chemical looping technologies, whereas the second was formed by merging the first system with an open cycle gas turbine. Both systems used an oxygen depleted stream as a working fluid and iron-based oxygen carriers from a chemical looping water splitting process storage material for the pumped thermal energy storage system. In addition, hydrogen from the chemical looping process was employed for the gas turbine in the second system. Both systems were evaluated thermodynamically via the determination of the roundtrip efficiency. The results presented here indicate that the roundtrip efficiency of both systems developed was 77%. Furthermore, the capital requirements, operating costs, and daily profits from electricity generation were calculated for both systems over several days within the year. The capital and operating costs for the several days that were simulated for the integrated pumped thermal energy storage system were lower than that of a gas turbine based system. Consequently, the daily profit was estimated and found to be between 4.9% and 72.9% higher for the integrated pumped storage relative to the gas turbine based system. Moreover, an economic sensitivity analysis was performed to identify the factors that strongly affect the daily profits of the gas turbine system relative to the pumped storage system. Based on the analysis, the optimal hydrogen fuel percentage fed to the open cycle gas turbine was calculated for the days simulated. Finally, the impact of % error on the estimated capital and fuel production costs on daily profits were investigated. The outcome revealed a higher impact of computational errors on the fuel costs relative to the costs of the capital.
Date Issued
2022-03-01
Date Acceptance
2022-02-03
Citation
Energy Conversion and Management, 2022, 255, pp.1-23
ISSN
0196-8904
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
23
Journal / Book Title
Energy Conversion and Management
Volume
255
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Thermodynamics
Energy & Fuels
Mechanics
Pumped thermal energy storage
Open cycle gas turbine
Roundtrip efficiency
Chemical looping
Economic assessment
Thermodynamic evaluation
THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS
HYDROGEN-PRODUCTION
PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
OPERATION STRATEGIES
HEAT
SYSTEM
OPTIMIZATION
DESIGN
BATTERIES
COST
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 115332
Date Publish Online
2022-02-18