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EPRI Proprietary Licensed Material<br />

• Simple open-cycle single-shaft gas turbine<br />

• Gas turbine power generat<strong>or</strong><br />

• Steel-finned tube regenerat<strong>or</strong> to preheat the <strong>com</strong>bustion air using exhaust heat recovery<br />

• Cooling water system with air-cooled radiat<strong>or</strong><br />

• No NO x reduction equipment<br />

Table 5<br />

CAES Field Tests<br />

Characteristic<br />

Location<br />

Japan [21] Italy Pittsfield<br />

Spons<strong>or</strong><br />

New <strong>Energy</strong><br />

Foundation<br />

ENEL<br />

Strata Power, EPRI,<br />

Nic<strong>or</strong><br />

<strong>St<strong>or</strong>age</strong><br />

Variable pressure using<br />

synthetic lining in<br />

concrete shaft put in<br />

coal mine tunnel<br />

P<strong>or</strong>ous rock<br />

P<strong>or</strong>ous sandstone<br />

caverns<br />

Design parameters<br />

2 MW e<br />

10 hours <strong>com</strong>pression<br />

4 hours generation<br />

1,100 psi<br />

57,000 cubic feet<br />

25 MW e<br />

Testing successfully<br />

<strong>com</strong>pleted to measure<br />

and cycle st<strong>or</strong>ed<br />

<strong>com</strong>pressed air<br />

Status<br />

On-going project<br />

Testing Successful<br />

(geologic <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mation was<br />

“disturbed” by a<br />

geothermal event and<br />

the testing was stopped<br />

somewhat prematurely)<br />

Testing successful [22]<br />

Italy<br />

ENEL operated a small 25-MW e CAES research facility plant in Italy using a p<strong>or</strong>ous rock<br />

st<strong>or</strong>age zone that previously held a carbon dioxide “bubble”. Although the testing was<br />

successful, the testing was stopped somewhat prematurely when the geologic <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mation was<br />

“disturbed” by a geothermal event (which was probably induced by a nearby geothermal field<br />

extraction process).<br />

United States<br />

Several parties, including Strata Power, EPRI, Nic<strong>or</strong>, and U.S. DOE, have tested the p<strong>or</strong>ous<br />

sandstone caverns in Pittsfield, Illinois to determine the feasibility <strong>of</strong> the p<strong>or</strong>ous rock <strong>f<strong>or</strong></strong>mations<br />

Compressed Air <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>St<strong>or</strong>age</strong> (CAES) Page 19

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