US Patent No: 7,802,426
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System and method for rapid isothermal gas expansion and compression for energy storage
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Sep 28, 2010
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Abstract
The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding gas in a cylinder. The cylinder is used in a staged hydraulic-pneumatic energy conversion system and includes a gas chamber (pneumatic side) and a fluid chamber (hydraulic side) and a piston or other mechanism that separates the gas chamber and fluid chamber while allowing the transfer of force/pressure between each opposing chamber. The gas chamber of the cylinder includes ports that are coupled to a heat transfer subassembly that circulates gas from the pneumatic side and exchanges its heat with a counter flow of ambient temperature fluid from a reservoir or other source.
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- B66F:HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERW....
- F01K:STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; ENGINE PL....
- F02C:GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION....
- F16D:COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION
- F02G:HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION- PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLaCEME....
- F15B:SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUI....
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