NEAR-ISOTHERMAL COMPRESSION, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH NEAR-ISOTHERMAL COMPRESSION

Abstract: a system can comprise one or more near-isothermal compression (nic) systems. each nic system can have one or more chambers and cooling means. each nic system can increase a pressure of a working fluid in the one or more chambers via an incompressible fluid acting as a liquid piston. the cooling means can remove from the working fluid at least some heat generated by the increased pressure. in some embodiments, nic systems can alternately operate with incompressible fluid flow reversing direction through the one or more chambers based on mode of operation. alternatively, in some embodiments, a direction of the incompressible fluid flow can be the same regardless of the mode of operation. alternatively, in some embodiments, a mechanical piston is used to move the incompressible fluid within the chamber to effect compression of the working fluid.

Inventor(s): K. Reinhard RADERMACHER, Yunho HWANG, Jan MUEHLBAUER, Lei GAO, Cheng-Yi LEE, Haopeng LIU

CPC Classification: F25B31/00 (Compressor arrangements)

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