Abstract
With the rapid development of intermittent renewable energy, large-scale compressed air energy storage technology represented by Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) has attracted much attention. In order to simultaneously solve the problems of reuse of decommissioned oil wells and low efficiency of A-CAES system, a compressed air energy storage system incorporating abandoned oil wells as Air Storage Tank (AST) is proposed in this paper. The system performance of underground Oil Well CAES (OW-CAES), aboveground Steel Pipeline CAES (SP-CAES), and aboveground Storage Tank CAES (ST-CAES) is comparatively analyzed based on a thermodynamic model, focusing on the impact of heat transfer characteristic parameters of the AST wall on the system performance. The results show that recoverable heat and round-trip efficiency are significantly affected by the heat transfer characteristics of the AST wall. More recoverable heat and higher round-trip efficiency can be achieved by increasing the wall temperature and the surface area of the AST, respectively. The round-trip efficiency and energy storage density of the OW-CAES system are higher than those of the ST-CAES system, which are increased by 8.3 % and 18.45 % respectively. This study provides theoretical support for the feasibility of the OW-CAES system and has certain engineering guiding significance.
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