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  2. Compressed-air energy storage - Wikipedia

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    As the gas is compressed, the heat of compression is rapidly transferred to the thermal mass, so the gas temperature is stabilized. An external cooling circuit is then used to maintain the temperature of the thermal mass. The isothermal efficiency (Z) [13] is a measure of where the process lies between an adiabatic and isothermal process. If ...

  3. Adiabatic process - Wikipedia

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    An adiabatic process (adiabatic from Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos) ' impassable ') is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat between the thermodynamic system and its environment. Unlike an isothermal process, an adiabatic process transfers energy to the surroundings only as work and/or mass flow.

  4. Gas turbine - Wikipedia

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    The basic operation of the gas turbine is a Brayton cycle with air as the working fluid: atmospheric air flows through the compressor that brings it to higher pressure; energy is then added by spraying fuel into the air and igniting it so that the combustion generates a high-temperature flow; this high-temperature pressurized gas enters a ...

  5. Energy storage - Wikipedia

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    Air storage can be adiabatic, diabatic, ... elevation difference between the sea surface and the seabed, ... combined with the gas turbine, allows the peaker plant to ...

  6. Brayton cycle - Wikipedia

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    Recuperator [16] – If the Brayton cycle is run at a low pressure ratio and a high temperature increase in the combustion chamber, the exhaust gas (after the last turbine stage) might still be hotter than the compressed inlet gas (after the last compression stage but before the combustor). In that case, a heat exchanger can be used to transfer ...

  7. Heat capacity ratio - Wikipedia

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    Another way of understanding the difference between C P and C V is that C P applies if work is done to the system, which causes a change in volume (such as by moving a piston so as to compress the contents of a cylinder), or if work is done by the system, which changes its temperature (such as heating the gas in a cylinder to cause a piston to ...

  8. List of adiabatic concepts - Wikipedia

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    Adiabatic (from Gr. ἀ negative + διάβασις passage; transference) refers to any process that occurs without heat transfer. This concept is used in many areas of physics and engineering. This concept is used in many areas of physics and engineering.

  9. Otto cycle - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the exhaust and intake pressures and temperatures means that some increase in efficiency can be gained by use of a turbocharger, removing from the exhaust flow some part of the remaining energy and transferring that to the intake flow to increase the intake pressure. A gas turbine can extract useful work energy from the ...