WO2015006606A1 - Procédé et appareil permettant d'améliorer la récupération et le stockage de l'énergie provenant de sources d'énergie renouvelables à l'aide d'une pompe cryogénique - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil permettant d'améliorer la récupération et le stockage de l'énergie provenant de sources d'énergie renouvelables à l'aide d'une pompe cryogénique Download PDF

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WO2015006606A1
WO2015006606A1 PCT/US2014/046223 US2014046223W WO2015006606A1 WO 2015006606 A1 WO2015006606 A1 WO 2015006606A1 US 2014046223 W US2014046223 W US 2014046223W WO 2015006606 A1 WO2015006606 A1 WO 2015006606A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01K—STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; ENGINE PLANTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ENGINES USING SPECIAL WORKING FLUIDS OR CYCLES
    • F01K25/00—Plants or engines characterised by use of special working fluids, not otherwise provided for; Plants operating in closed cycles and not otherwise provided for
    • F01K25/08—Plants or engines characterised by use of special working fluids, not otherwise provided for; Plants operating in closed cycles and not otherwise provided for using special vapours
    • F01K25/10—Plants or engines characterised by use of special working fluids, not otherwise provided for; Plants operating in closed cycles and not otherwise provided for using special vapours the vapours being cold, e.g. ammonia, carbon dioxide, ether
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01K—STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; ENGINE PLANTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ENGINES USING SPECIAL WORKING FLUIDS OR CYCLES
    • F01K3/00—Plants characterised by the use of steam or heat accumulators, or intermediate steam heaters, therein
    • F01K3/18—Plants characterised by the use of steam or heat accumulators, or intermediate steam heaters, therein having heaters
    • F01K3/185—Plants characterised by the use of steam or heat accumulators, or intermediate steam heaters, therein having heaters using waste heat from outside the plant
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D9/00—Adaptations of wind motors for special use; Combinations of wind motors with apparatus driven thereby; Wind motors specially adapted for installation in particular locations
    • F03D9/10—Combinations of wind motors with apparatus storing energy
    • F03D9/18—Combinations of wind motors with apparatus storing energy storing heat

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  • methods and apparatuses to commercialize renewable energy sources using cryogenic pumps to pressurize cryogenic working fluids into fluid containment spaces are taught to store and enhance energy recovered from renewable resources in large volume, high pressure containment spaces, from which said stored energy is then commercialized by delivering electricity to power grids when renewable energy sources are not steady, available, or sufficient for the electrical power grid demand.
  • excess heat energy can be recovered and stored from manmade devices like internet servers, computers, data storage hotels, as well as electrical motors, electrical generators, factories, homes, and even the electrical grid itself.
  • cooling can be provided to said manmade devices.
  • methods and apparatuses disclosed herein teach not only storage and conversion of stored energy from renewable energy sources, but also simultaneously and serendipitously making fresh water from salt water in the process.
  • Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus to store and supply copious quantities of constant— or as referred to in the electrical power industry "firm”— renewable energy to electric power grids. Taught herein are methods and apparatuses that allow for the harnessing and storage of vast amounts of renewable energy at many heretofore hydrocarbon poor areas of the planet using inert storage materials.
  • This backup reserve electrical power generation is referred to by the electrical power engineering community as "spinning reserve".
  • This spinning reserve is normally a hydrocarbon fueled generator that is always on, even when the wind is blowing, such that the instant the wind slows down or stops, the spinning reserve hydrocarbon fueled generator can instantly start supplying electrical power to the electrical grid.
  • This spinning reserve is normally a hydrocarbon fueled generator that is always on, even when the wind is blowing, such that the instant the wind slows down or stops, the spinning reserve hydrocarbon fueled generator can instantly start supplying electrical power to the electrical grid.
  • What is needed to make electricity for renewable energy sources hydrocarbon free is an alternative to hydrocarbon spinning reserve generators.
  • Disclosed herein is a method to make spinning reserve electrical power from non-hydrocarbon resources. The disclosure teaches how to store energy from renewable resources to supply both spinning reserve electrical generation capacity, ramp up and ramp down control of wind generator systems and other alternative energy systems, as well as peak power shaving when the demand for electricity from the grid is higher than the renewable resource can supply instantaneously.
  • Geothermal renewable resources demonstrate another challenge to civilization's quest to reduce hydrocarbon use.
  • Current Geothermal energy extraction methods suffer commercially from the difficulty of collecting sufficient energy from the earth. This is due to the amount of geothermal energy commercially near the Earth's surface being limited in concentration, or better said the geothermal energy that is shallow enough to be commercially obtainable by drilling technology is not sufficiently concentrated.
  • geothermal energy is concentrated sufficiently to be commercially viable to drill wells into steam reservoirs, extract the steam to surface, and expand steam through turbines to create electrical power.
  • the number of places on earth where these geothermal reservoirs are available at commercial drilling depths are limited.
  • the present disclosure teaches methods to pressurize cryogenic working fluids into subterranean environments and recover energy from the geothermal heat transferred to said working fluid from the earth, such that said energy can be transduced through work extraction devices and used to generate electrical power that is subsequently supplied to electrical grids.
  • the present disclosure teaches storage and subsequent extraction of energy from renewable resources in both subterranean environments as well as from submarinean sources— that is seas, oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water. It is well known that the seas, oceans, and large bodies of waters like lakes, maintain water temperatures above 0 Degrees Fahrenheit. Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses to store energy from renewable energy resources and extract heat energy from seas, lakes, and other bodies of water using pressurized cryogenic working fluids, cryogenic pumps, fluid containment spaces like long pipelines and conduits, work extraction devices, power generation devices, and cryogenic fluid manufacturing plants.
  • the present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for enhancing the collection, storage and recovery of energy extracted from renewable resources and waste heat from manmade devices and networks, to allow for more stable and consistent delivery of electrical power to be commercialized to electrical power grids when the renewable energy sources are not available, not stable, or not sufficient to meet the electrical power grid requirements.
  • Disclosed herein are methods using cryogenic pumps to pressurize cryogenic working fluids into high pressure storage vessels, transporting said working fluids to heat exchange spaces where heat energy is added, and then extracting said stored and collected energy through work extraction devices thereafter using said work to power electrical generators and then to commercialize the electrical power to electrical grids.
  • the heat exchange spaces comprise subterranean reservoirs.
  • subterranean reservoirs form fluid storage and containment spaces for the working fluids.
  • heat exchange spaces comprise bodies of water.
  • the heat exchange spaces comprise the Earth's atmosphere.
  • the heat exchange spaces comprise lava flows.
  • the heat exchange spaces comprise spaces being heated by electrical, optical, and electronic devices.
  • the heat exchange space comprises a combination of different heat exchange spaces.
  • the high fluid storage spaces for said working fluid comprises high pressure conduits.
  • said high fluid storage spaces comprise subterranean earth strata.
  • cryogenic working fluids comprising the steps of powering a cryogenic manufacturing source with energy recovered from a renewable resource, delivering cryogenic working fluid from the source to at least one cryogenic pump, transferring pressurized fluid from said pump to a conduit, transferring said pressurized working fluid to a least one subterranean wellbore, injecting the cryogenic working fluid with at least one cryogenic pump through at least one wellbore into at least one subterranean reservoir, warming the cryogenic working fluid, and transferring at least said working fluid, through a work extraction device, wherein said work is used to generate electrical power that is subsequently sold to an electrical power grid.
  • said renewable energy recovered from renewable resources is wind energy recovered from wind turbines.
  • the energy recovered from said renewable resource is geothermal energy.
  • the cryogenic working fluid source is a cryogenic fluid manufacturing plant that converts air to cryogenic fluids wherein said cryogenic fluid manufacturing plant is at least potentially powered by renewable energy sources like wind.
  • the cryogenic working fluid source is a liquid air plant at least partially powered by energy recovered from wind.
  • the working fluid is nitrogen.
  • the cryogenic fluid manufacturing process comprises the separation of the various cryogenic liquids found in the air.
  • the cryogenic working fluid is argon.
  • oxygen is separated and commercialized from the cryogenic working fluids produced from said cryogenic plant powered by renewable energy.
  • the cryogenic fluid manufacturing plant source is offshore. In other embodiments, the entire apparatus is located offshore. [0015] In some aspects of the present disclosure, the step of injecting the cryogenic flood fluid is performed by at least one cryogenic pump.
  • the cryogenic pumps can be positive displacement pumps fed by low pressure cryogenic centrifugal pumps or a series high rate cryogenic turbo-pumps like the low pressure oxidizer pump and high pressure oxidizer pump used on the Space Shuttle.
  • the wellbore is located offshore and the subterranean reservoir is an offshore oil reservoir.
  • the subterranean reservoir is an offshore gas reservoir.
  • the subterranean reservoir is an aquifer.
  • the subterranean reservoir is a coal bed methane deposit, a shale oil deposit, and/or a shale gas deposit.
  • the subterranean reservoir is a geothermal reservoir.
  • the methods of the present disclosure may include the method and apparatus of injecting the working fluid into high pressure conduits disposed at least partially in bodies of water, rivers like oceans, seas, or lakes where the working fluid is compressed into said conduits, and where the working fluid is pressurized and heated by said heat exchange spaces comprising water.
  • the high pressure conduits commence on land, progress out into the body of water and are disposed in a body of water, then the conduits loop back to on land where the working fluid is transferred through the conduit and back to work extraction machines.
  • the conduits first pass through heat exchange spaces on land prior to being disposed in a body of water and looped back to land.
  • the high pressure conduits are disposed in subterranean wells and/or subterranean trenches.
  • the heat exchange spaces are lava flows and the conduits of this invention are at least passed on or near lava flows.
  • the reservoir fluid produced from the subterranean reservoir comprises a liquid.
  • this liquid comprises a liquid hydrocarbon.
  • the liquid produced from the reservoir may comprise water and/or gas.
  • the gas comprises a hydrocarbon gas. In other cases the gas comprises steam.
  • the step of warming the injected cryogenic fluid is performed by an electrical device or devices.
  • the warming step of the working fluid is performed by the geothermal energy of a subterranean reservoir penetrated by a well and reservoir where it is injected.
  • a wellbore has at least one horizontal section.
  • various parts of the system disclosed herein are located on a volcanic island to take advantage of the heat of lava flows and geothermal properties.
  • the electric grid may also be located on the volcanic island.
  • the heat exchange space is located offshore of a land mass. In one embodiment various parts of the system disclosed herein are located offshore of a land mass.
  • FIG. 2 depicts an alternative embodiment of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 3 shows heat exchange spaces of the present disclosure, wherein the heat exchange spaces can be utilized independently or in combination.
  • fluid containment space refers to a space with low permeability boundaries sufficient to confine pressurized fluids.
  • containment spaces with low permeability boundaries are tubes, tanks, underground rock structures with low permeability sealing boundaries above, or below said underground structure like a structural reservoir fluid trap, low permeability rock structures containing fractures that can contain fluid within the boundaries of the fractures, as well as many other spaces known to those who store fluids.
  • One illustrative example of a fluid containment space is a long pipeline.
  • a fluid containment space is a cryogenic fluid storage tank, which of course can be made of many different alloys or plastics.
  • a still further example of a fluid containment space is a fluid network containing any combination of conduits, tanks, subterranean reservoirs, compressors, turbines, engines, distillation towers, expanders, throttle valves, and other fluid handling devices known to man.
  • Electronic server hotel 38 adds heat to working fluid 22, thereby adding energy to the system, while the cold working fluid 22 assists in cooling server hotel 38.
  • hotel 38 could represent other systems that require cooling, such as production plants, food refrigerators, human or livestock air conditioning systems, etc.
  • Other manmade heat exchange spaces are contemplated, such as an office building, a factory, or any building or plant that produces heat.
  • working fluid 22 can be heated by the electrical transmission lines themselves, that come in and go out of system 200.

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La présente invention se rapporte à des procédés et à des appareils permettant de stocker et, par la suite, de fournir une énergie alternative collectée par des sources renouvelables. La présente invention porte sur un système permettant une meilleure récupération et un meilleur stockage de l'énergie produite sur terre en faisant fonctionner des pompes cryogéniques, des dispositifs de chauffage et des installations de fluide cryogénique avec des sources d'énergie renouvelable. Un cycle thermodynamique de fluide de travail en boucle fermée collecte la chaleur qui se dégage de l'atmosphère terrestre, des mers, des lacs, des océans, de l'énergie géothermique et des sources de chaleur perdue anthropique pour chauffer les fluides cryogéniques fournis par les installations cryogéniques entraînées par des systèmes d'extraction d'énergie renouvelable. Ces systèmes et procédés stockent l'énergie renouvelable tout en collectant en même temps la chaleur terrestre pour améliorer davantage le rendement du système.
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