Overview

The use of energy storage in a clean energy system is critical in many instances to an effective deployment. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the major promising technologies of energy storage except for Pumped Hydro. There are already two conventional CAES plants in operation for decades, which are Huntorf and McIntosh plants.

Advanced CAES technology has been developed in the last decades to overcome the two major disadvantages of the conventional CAES, ie usage of fossil fuel and low efficiency. This presentation will report recent progress in advance CAES in China including both research and development aspects. The contents will comprise overall strategy, fundamental study, technical development, as well as the demonstration projects including our recent 1.5MW, 10MW, 100MW and 300MW demonstration plants.

Speaker

Haisheng Chen, Director, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Haisheng Chen is currently Director of Institute of Engineering Thermophysics (IET), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has a bachelor from University of Xi’an Jiaotong University and a PhD from IET-CAS. He has been working on fundamental study, technological development and systems of large scale physical energy storages, especially compressed air energy storage, for over 20 years. His team has developed the world’s first 1.5MW, 10MW, 100MW and 300MW advance CAES demonstration plants.

He has been awarded 40+ research projects and his research has led to 500+ peer-reviewed papers, 10+ books and 300+ patents. His publications have received 30000+ citations. He has received 10+ high level prizes including Special Award of China Science and Technology Award for Young Talents, The XPlorer Prize 2021 and Newton Advanced Fellowship of the Royal Society etc.

He is now the Director of China National Research Centre of Physical Energy Storage, the President of Energy Storage Alliance, China Energy Research Society and vice president of China Society of Engineering Thermophysics. He is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of five peer reviewed journals including Journal of Thermal Science, Journal of Energy Storage Science and Technology, Journal of Smart Grid etc. He was the chair or co-chair of eight international and China’s national conferences on energy science and technology.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Clean Energy Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.