Review on Liquid Piston technology for compressed air energy storage

EM Gouda, Y Fan, M Benaouicha, T Neu… - Journal of Energy Storage, 2021 - Elsevier
Compressed air energy storage systems (CAES) have demonstrated the potential for the
energy storage of power plants. One of the key factors to improve the efficiency of CAES is …

Flow and heat transfer characteristics of air compression in a liquid piston for compressed air energy storage

EM Gouda, M Benaouicha, T Neu, Y Fan, L Luo - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The breakthrough in energy storage technology is the key issue for the renewable energy
penetration and compressed air energy storage (CAES) has demonstrated the potential for …

A fluid flow machine unit for a small-scale compressed gas energy storage system–Literature review

P Lis, J Milewski, P Ryś, P Shuhayeu - Applied Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
The article discusses the importance of energy storage for future energy systems and the
use of renewable energy sources, with a particular focus on compressed air energy storage …

Experimental investigation of heat transfer in liquid piston compressor

VC Patil, P Acharya, PI Ro - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of liquid pistons is a promising approach for attaining efficient near-isothermal
compression. One of the key factors affecting the efficiency of a liquid piston compressor is …

Experimental and modelling analysis of efficiency enhancement in a liquid piston gas compressor using metal plate inserts for compressed air energy storage …

M Khaljani, A Vennard, J Harrison, D Surplus… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, experimental and modelling analyses are performed in order to improve the
compression efficiency of a Liquid Piston Gas Compressor (LPGC), which utilizes a column …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and parametric optimization of a liquid piston compressor with inner cooling tubes

N Cerkovnik, VAF Costa, AMG Lopes - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This work proposes a new configuration of liquid piston compressors and a methodology for
their optimization, with special attention to heat removal from the compressing gas, in order …

Approximation of the compression process to isothermal in a reciprocating compressor with a liquid piston

VE Shcherba, EA Pavlyuchenko, EY Nosov… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The implementation of the isothermal process of gas compression in the compressor
increases the indicator efficiency up to 20%, which is a determining increase in their …

A combined experimental and modelling investigation of an overground compressed-air energy storage system with a reversible liquid-piston gas compressor …

M Khaljani, J Harrison, D Surplus, A Murphy… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider a small-scale overground compressed-air energy storage (CAES) system
intended for use in micro-grid power networks. This work goes beyond previous efforts in the …

Heat transfer analysis of liquid piston compressor for hydrogen applications

NA Kermani, M Rokni - International journal of hydrogen energy, 2015 - Elsevier
A hydrogen compression technology using liquid as the compression piston is investigated
from heat transfer point of view. A thermodynamic model, simulating a single compression …

Various methodologies to improve the energy efficiency of a compressed air energy storage system

S Mitra, AC Mahato, A Nag, D Kumar - Energy Storage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intermittency characteristic of renewable energy sources can be resolved using an energy
storage technology. The function of the energy storage system is to store the excess energy …