NPS professor, students issued provisional patent for liquid air
energy storage, recovery system
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Department of Systems Engineering
Assistant Professor Tony Pollman, along with university graduates U.S.
Navy Lt. Nicholas Bailey and Lt. Christopher Girouard, were issued a provisional patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Feb. 10,
for a novel apparatus using a dual-Stirling engine charge and recovery
method for liquid air energy storage (LAES) systems.
"This is a technology that has the potential to shape things we do in
life," said Pollman.
Put simply, the dual-Stirling engine is capable of utilizing stored
excess energy generated by renewable sources like solar and wind, so
it can be utilized when and where it's needed most. Unlike other
systems using compressed air energy storage, the NPS team's discovery
would not require large tanks for storage, or the geographical
constraints that hydro-electric recovery systems require.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/948023
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