In industry, compressed air is so widely used that it is often regarded as the fourth utility after electricity, natural gas, and water. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) typically uses power from renewable energy (i.e., wind, solar) to compress air, and to generate electricity through a turbine when needed, as a way of (i) mitigating […]
Clean Energy
The investigators have found cost-effective isothermal compression and expansion of gaseous streams is achievable through vasculatures with lung-like gas flow paths embedded in phase change material (PCM) or thermochemical materials. Their design is highly scalable; a patent has been applied for. In previous attempts to obtain isothermal compression / expansion, temperature increase and decrease was […]