Development of an innovative grid-scale energy storage to push UK and China renewables

Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers (2022)
Book Chapter
Yang, L., Cai, Z., Li, C., Guo, C., & He, Q. (2023). Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers. In J. Miocic, N. Heinemann, K. Edlmann, J. Alcalde, & R. Schultz (Eds.), Enabling Secure Subsurface Storage in Future Energy Systems. Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp528-2022-74

Aquifers have advantages over salt caverns as the storage vessels for compressed air energy storage due to their wider availability for suitable sites and lower one-off capital investment for construction. We conducted numerical simulations for compr... Read More about Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers.

The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers (2021)
Journal Article
Guo, C., Li, C., Zhang, K., Cai, Z., Ma, T., Maggi, F., Gan, Y., El-Zein, A., Pan, Z., & Shen, L. (2021). The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers. Applied Energy, 286, Article 116513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116513

Widely distributed aquifers have been proposed as effective storage reservoirs for compressed air energy storage (CAES). This aims to overcome the limitations of geological conditions for conventional utility-scale CAES, which has to date used cavern... Read More about The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers.

Numerical investigation of cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, L., Cai, Z., Li, C., He, Q., Ma, Y., & Guo, C. (2020). Numerical investigation of cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers. Applied Energy, 269, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115044

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the promising technologies to store the renewable energies such as surplus solar and wind energy in a grid scale. Due to the widespread of aquifers in the world, the compressed air energy storage in aqui... Read More about Numerical investigation of cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers.

The application of the yield approach to study slurry migration in drill cuttings waste underground disposal (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, C., Wang, X., Li, C., Zhang, K., & Cai, Z. (2020). The application of the yield approach to study slurry migration in drill cuttings waste underground disposal. Journal of Cleaner Production, 254, Article 120144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120144

The underground disposal of drill cuttings waste is a common practice for the gas/oil industry to achieve zero-discharge sustainable development. In this study, a numerical modeling approach was developed to simulate the slurry flow for underground d... Read More about The application of the yield approach to study slurry migration in drill cuttings waste underground disposal.

Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, L., Guo, C., Li, C., He, Q., Zhang, K., & Cai, Z. (2019, August). Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs. Presented at International Conference on Applied Energy 2019, Västerås, Sweden

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is one of the promising methods to store the surplus solar and wind energy
in a grid scale . In this study, we used a non-isothermal multiphase flow simulator to model a field-scale study o... Read More about Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs.