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    A method of converting electrical energy into pneumatic energy and vice versa in which: - a liquid piston liquid is pumped into a conversion chamber in which a quantity of air is trapped until this air reaches a pressure of a reservoir compressed air storage, or - turbine a liquid by expanding the compressed air in a conversion chamber in which is filled a quantity of liquid, in which the pumping or turbining of the water takes place in the same conversion chamber and successively at least two stages of pumping or respectively turbination provided to operate in different pressure ranges. The invention is particularly applicable to the field of conversion of electrical energy and storage thereof.
    公开号:FR3036887A1
    申请号:FR1554931
    申请日:2015-06-01
    公开日:2016-12-02
    发明作者:Thibault Neu
    申请人:Segula Eng & Consulting；
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    [0001] BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a device for converting energy from electrical origin and storage of energy. energy in the form of compressed air using a liquid medium, in particular the aquatic medium. The present invention also relates to a conversion process between the forms of electrical energy and respectively aeraulic. Such a device makes it possible to easily and efficiently convert electrical energy into storage aeraulic energy and vice versa to be distributed on the network. The invention is particularly applicable to the field of conversion of electrical energy and storage thereof once converted into a form capable of durable accumulation, in this case the form of compressed air. State of the Prior Art Electricity generation is nowadays a crucial issue. Renewable energy production technologies have been developed to diversify sources of energy supply and to produce electricity in an environmentally friendly manner. However, the electricity needs of consumers do not necessarily coincide with the generation of electricity from renewable sources such as solar or wind energy. This raises the problem of storing electrical energy when it can not be consumed directly by consumers via the electricity distribution network. However, electricity can only be stored converted to another form of energy, and then it must be converted back into electricity when it is destocked to supply the electricity distribution network when it becomes the applicant. These essential transformations between forms of energy are subject to energy losses which must be minimized. Various energy conversion and storage devices are known in which electrical energy is converted and stored as compressed air. Electricity typically from solar panels or wind turbines is routed to a device that is partly on the surface of an aquatic environment and partially immersed in the aquatic environment. The transformation of the electrical energy is carried out using this electricity as a source of energy to compress air that is sent into a reservoir maintained under substantially constant pressure thanks to the hydrostatic pressure at the immersion depth of the tank. For compression, rather than using a compressor directly driven by an electric motor, a liquid pumping system 15 is preferably used which fills a conversion chamber at the bottom where the air to be compressed is trapped in. upper part. This mode of compression has the advantage of being quasi-isothermal. The liquid comes from an external environment such as the aquatic environment or comes from a reservoir. The entrapped air is compressed to a predetermined pressure by pumping liquid into the conversion chamber, the liquid forming a liquid compression piston. The compressed air is then transferred to the compressed air storage tank. Then the liquid is replaced by low pressure air in the conversion chamber is a new conversion cycle can begin. When the grid becomes a requester of electrical energy, energy stored as compressed air is reconverted into electricity. The compressed air of the storage tank is transferred into the conversion chamber initially filled with liquid. The compressed air expands in the conversion chamber and delivers the liquid through a dynamo-hydraulic machine, such as a turbine, coupled to an electric generator supplying the network. However, these devices have inefficiencies. Pumps and turbines work under a very small pressure difference at the start of pumping and at the end of the turbines, and must then ensure a very high flow rate so that their power is significant. Conversely, at the end of pumping and in the beginning of turbining, the difference between the high and the low pressure of the pump or the turbine is large and consequently the flow rate much lower, for a given electric power. However, dynamo-hydraulic machines (pumps or turbines or reversible pump-turbines) can not be optimized for all these very varied operating conditions. The problem is complicated by the need for the conversion of electrical energy into another form or vice versa to be accomplished from an electrical point of view with as little fluctuation power as possible in order to facilitate the absorption or restitution of the electrical energy on the network. The article "HyPES hydropneumatic energy storage" by Dr. Sylvain LEMOFOUET and Pr. Alfred RUFER, Bulletin 9/2011 Electrosuisse pages 38 to 42, describes a mechanical-pneumatic conversion device presenting a multi-stage hydropneumatic chain. different displacements. "Each stage consists essentially of a variable flow hydraulic motor pump, a hydraulic steering module and a compression / expansion chamber with integrated heat exchanger. ". This device has many elements, its price and its maintenance are relatively high, and its assembly is complex. The object of the present invention is to overcome all or part of at least one of the aforementioned problems with a new device for converting electrical energy into pneumatic energy and vice versa. An object of the invention is to provide a device with a good cost-effectiveness. The invention also aims to limit energy losses. The invention also aims to provide a device providing electrical energy so that the power fluctuation due to the conversion mode is low.
    [0002] Yet another object of the invention is to provide a machine comprising a reduced number of parts and / or components. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION These objectives are achieved with an energy conversion device for converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and storing it as compressed air. According to the invention, the device for converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa and storing it in the form of compressed air, the device comprising: - dynamo-electric machines which are connected to electric power with a network, 15 - dynamo-hydraulic machines mechanically connected with the dynamo-electric machines, - at least one conversion chamber able on the one hand to contain liquid pumped by the dynamo-hydraulic machines operating in pumps or to receive liquid intended to supply the dynamo-hydraulic machines operating in expansion machines, and on the other hand to contain air, so that the liquid present in the chamber forms a liquid piston for compressing or relaxing the air, a storage tank for compressed air at a storage pressure; bidirectional aeraulic communication means that can be closed between the conversion chambers and the storage compartment; In each storage chamber, each dynamohydraulic machine is adapted to operate in a respective pressure range at its high-pressure port to perform pumping or hydraulic expansion staggered in each conversion chamber successively with a plurality of said dynamo-hydraulic machines up to or respectively from the desired storage pressure, the pressure range being narrower than the gap between the low pressure and the storage pressure, 3036887 5 and in that distribution means are provided to connect each conversion chamber successively with at least two dynamo-hydraulic machines designed to operate in different pressure ranges.
    [0003] With the sequencing of the hydraulic pumping or expansion successively by at least two dynamo-electric machines differently calibrated in pressure, it is possible to optimize each dynamo-hydraulic machine for the range of pressures in which it will operate.
    [0004] In one embodiment, at least one dynamo-hydraulic machine is provided to operate in a narrow pressure range substantially corresponding to the pressure of the storage tank. Since part of the pumping and part of the hydraulic expansion is done at a substantially stabilized pressure during transfers between the tank and the conversion chamber, it is advantageous for at least one of the dynamo-hydraulic machines to be calibrated for this purpose. pressure. Advantageously, the dynamo-hydraulic machines are hydraulically mounted in parallel with each other between a source of low pressure liquid and the at least one conversion chamber. The storage tank is preferably subaquatic and open at the bottom for receiving water from the air compartment enclosing a pocket of air at a pressure defined by the depth of immersion of the tank. In this way, a reservoir can be made in a simple and reliable way that can have a very large capacity subjected to a stable pressure which can be without moving parts or deformable walls. This is the level of water in the tank that serves as a deformable wall adjusting according to the amount of compressed air stored.
    [0005] Typically, to achieve the conversion of electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa, there are provided several cycles respectively of pumping or turbining, each cycle passing through the successive pressure ranges. It is thus possible to use a conversion chamber that is much smaller, for example 100 times smaller than the storage tank.
    [0006] In one embodiment, the device comprises at least two conversion chambers in order to constantly maintain the energy flow in the dynamo-hydraulic machines. When a conversion chamber is in a reset phase (draining water for a new compression cycle or filling the water for a new expansion cycle), the other can continue to be energetically active. . Advantageously, the cycles of variation of liquid level in the conversion chambers are out of phase between conversion chambers, each dynamo-hydraulic machine being successively connected to several conversion chambers being staggered in time in the corresponding pressure range. to this dynamo-hydraulic machine. It can thus be ensured that the dynamo-hydraulic machines operate in a quasi-permanent or permanent manner successively with the different conversion chambers. According to one embodiment, a pause is provided at the moment when the at least one conversion chamber passes from one dynamo-hydraulic machine to another. Hydraulic readjustment means, in particular low pressure pumps, may be provided for readjusting the liquid level to its initial state to effect pumping or turbining in the at least one conversion chamber. Preferably, the device comprises more conversion chambers than dynamo-hydraulic machines. At each instant, the conversion chambers which are not connected to any dynamo-hydraulic machine may be in the resetting phase, or in the pause phase between two compression or expansion stages. In a preferred embodiment, the dynamo-hydraulic machines are of the pump-turbine type adapted to operate in pump or conversely in turbine. They are even more preferably of the Kaplan or Dériaz type.
    [0007] Preferably, the dynamo-electric machines are reversible generating engines, operating in motors for the storage of air-flow energy in the tank and in the generator for the production of electricity 5 during aerodynamic de-stocking. Advantageously, the bidirectional communication means are closed except during a final phase of the compression and during an initial phase of the expansion.
    [0008] According to a second aspect of the invention, the process of converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa in which: a liquid piston liquid is pumped into a conversion chamber in which a quantity of air is trapped 15 that this air reaches a pressure of a compressed air storage tank then the compressed air is transferred from the conversion chamber to the storage tank, and / or - turbine a liquid admitting compressed air in a conversion chamber containing a quantity of liquid so that the liquid is discharged through a turbine, is characterized in that the pumping or turbining of the liquid takes place successively at least in two stages of pumping or respectively of turbining intended to take place in different pressure ranges.
    [0009] In a preferred version of the process, during the turbining and after admitting a quantity of compressed air into the conversion chamber still containing water, the compressed air inlet coming from the storage tank is closed, and relaxes the compressed air present in the conversion chamber while the remaining liquid is discharged to be turbined. It is thus possible to relax as completely as desired each elementary quantity of compressed air admitted into the conversion chamber at each cycle, and this with excellent energy efficiency thanks to the stepped expansion according to the invention. Preferably: 3036887 8 - the liquid is pumped by dynamo-hydraulic machines driven by at least one electric motor operating with electrical energy from an electrical network, - the liquid is driven by dynamo-hydraulic machines which drive an electric generator for producing electrical energy restored to the network. In one version of the process: - during pumping and after transferring the compressed air into the storage tank, the liquid contained in the conversion chamber is drained, - during the turbining and after having relaxed the air contained in the conversion chamber, the chamber is filled with liquid again.
    [0010] Preferably, the compression of the air and / or the expansion of the air in the at least one conversion chamber is quasi-isothermal. For example, thermal conductors are placed vertically in the conversion chambers to transfer the calories generated in the air to the water by compression, and to transfer calories taken from the water to the air. during the relaxation. These conductors may be a bundle of vertical tubes open at both ends and extending over substantially the entire height of the conversion chamber.
    [0011] Optionally, the device may include super-capacitors to regulate the power that the device is exchanging with the network. It can also be provided to store the energy within a cycle via the kinetic energy stored on the motor shaft. The use of some of the kinetic energy available in the existing rotation of rotating machines (eg in the storage phase, motors and pumps) is envisaged. An additional rotating mass may also be added to the mechanical drive shaft to increase this storage of kinetic energy within a cycle.
    [0012] In addition it is possible to reuse the liquid of one cycle to perform other cycles with the same mass of liquid. This feature allows for energy conversions in a more ecological way by limiting the volumes of water captured and rejected by the device.
    [0013] DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES AND EMBODIMENTS Other features and advantages of the invention will appear on reading the detailed description of implementations and non-limiting embodiments, and the following appended drawings: FIG. a schematic view of the device for converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy; FIG. 2 is a connection diagram of the different elements of the energy conversion device according to a preferred embodiment of the invention; FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the operation of the device in the case of a conversion of electrical energy into aeraulic energy; FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the operation of the device in the case of a conversion of aeraulic energy into electrical energy; FIG. 5 is a table showing the temporal organization of the connection of the conversion chambers to dynamo-hydraulic machines and readjustment means, according to a preferred embodiment; FIG. 6 is a table showing the temporal organization of the connection of the conversion chambers to the dynamo-hydraulic machines and the readjustment means, according to a second preferred embodiment; And FIG. 7 is a timing diagram of the hydraulic powers corresponding to the table of FIG. 6. These embodiments being in no way limiting, it will be possible to consider in particular variants of the invention comprising only a selection of characteristics described. subsequently, isolated from the other features described (even if this selection is isolated within a sentence including these other characteristics), if this selection of features is sufficient to confer a technical advantage or to differentiate the invention from in the state of the prior art. This selection comprises at least one preferably functional feature without structural details, and / or with only a portion of the structural details if that part alone is sufficient to confer a technical advantage or to differentiate the invention from the state of the invention. prior art. We will firstly describe with reference to Figures 1 and 2 a device for converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa. One of the 10 preferred embodiments is a device for converting and storing electrical energy at sea. Its purpose is to absorb the electrical surpluses to convert them and store them in the form of aeraulic energy, and then when the network The applicant becomes a reconverter of the aeraulic energy into electrical energy in order to restore it to the network. Between these two active phases, the energy is stored as compressed air in at least one underwater storage tank, typically submarine, at a storage pressure. According to a preferred embodiment and with reference to FIG. 1, the underwater storage tank 20 is open in the lower part to communicate with the aquatic environment and to enclose in the upper part, above the water level in the tank, a pocket of compressed air at a desired pressure defined by the depth of immersion of the tank. Preferably, the reservoir consists of several contiguous and integral cells. Typically, the tank is placed on the bottom of the body of water, typically the seabed. A typical immersion depth is between 70 and 200 m, preferably of the order of 100 m. With reference to FIG. 1, the energy conversion device is placed on a floating platform 10. The floating platform groups together the electromechanical, hydromechanical and hydropneumatic conversion systems as well as the associated electrical and electronic systems to enable the conversion of electrical energy into pneumatic energy (also called aeraulic) and vice versa. A diagram of the principal of these equipment 35 is shown in FIG. 2. The platform is connected to the electrical network by a high-voltage submarine electrical cable 18. The position of the platform at the surface above the tanks is maintained. of the compressed air is achieved using a set of permanent anchor lines 19.
    [0014] The energy conversion device comprises dynamo-electric machines MG1, MG2, MG3 intended to operate as a motor absorbing the electrical energy to be converted from the network installation and transforming it into mechanical energy and / or to operate as a motor. generator using mechanical energy produced from the aeraulic energy stored in the reservoir 20 to convert this mechanical energy stored electrical energy to restore the network. According to a preferred embodiment, the dynamo-electric machines MG1, MG2, MG3 are reversible generating motors.
    [0015] The diagram of FIG. 2 is broken down into two parts: a framed part of fine dotted lines which corresponds to a purely hydraulic part and a framed part of discontinuous lines which corresponds to a purely aeraulic part.
    [0016] With reference to FIG. 2, the device comprises dynamo-hydraulic machines PT1, PT2 and PT3 for respectively pumping or turbining water. In the nonlimiting but preferred example, the dynamo-hydraulic machines PT1, PT2 and PT3 are reversible machines capable of operating either as pumps, in particular turbopumps or expansion machines, in particular turbines. But the invention is applicable by using specific machines for pumping and for relaxing, respectively. The shaft of each dynamo-hydraulic machine PT1, PT2, PT3 is coupled to the shaft of a respective dynamo-electric machine MG1, MG2, MG3, 30 as represented by the references 21. The dynamo-hydraulic machines operating in pumping are used to convert the mechanical energy from dynamo-electric machines operating in motor, hydraulic energy by pumping a liquid drawn from a source such as the water of the surrounding aquatic environment and repress this liquid to an increased pressure by pumping into a discharge port 16. Hydraulic dynamo machines operating in a hydraulic expansion machine, in particular turbines, make it possible to convert the hydraulic energy into mechanical energy supplied to the shaft of the dynamomechanical machine. electrical generator operating, by the turbining of the liquid arriving under a certain pressure at the high pressure port 16 and leaving the dynamo-hydraulic machine pa r its low pressure port 14 to return to the tank, particularly the surrounding aquatic environment. Preferably, the dynamo-hydraulic machines can be pump-turbines of the Kaplan or Dériaz type. These pump-turbines make it possible to vary their flow rate at a constant speed, which makes it possible in particular to tend towards a uniformization of the power despite the variation of the pressure during compression of the air, and thus to limit the variation of electrical power. seen by the electric machines.
    [0017] The device comprises conversion chambers CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, CH5, CH6 each having a lower orifice adapted to be connected to the high pressure port 16 of the dynamo-hydraulic machines PT1, PT2, PT3 by a valve system. 17, an upper orifice adapted to be connected by a valve 11 to the bidirectional communication conduit 13 with the reservoir 20, and an upper orifice adapted to be connected to the open air by a valve 12 and a filling line In general, each conversion chamber contains air at the top and working liquid, typically water from the aquatic environment, at the bottom. The water present in the bottom chamber forms a liquid piston for compressing or expanding the air. The conversion chamber makes it possible to convert hydraulic energy into pneumatic energy and vice versa. The compressions and relaxations of the air are carried out inside the conversion chambers. Preferably, sufficient conversion chambers are provided to continuously maintain the energy flow even while at least one conversion chamber is in the filling or draining phase of its water. In particular, the device comprises more conversion chambers than PT1, PT2, PT3 dynamo-hydraulic machines capable of operating as a pump and more conversion chambers than PT1, PT2, PT3 dynamo-hydraulic machines capable of operating in machines. hydraulic relaxation. This characteristic makes it possible to maintain all the dynamo-hydraulic machines operating as the case may be in pumps or turbines even during the filling or emptying of at least one conversion chamber. In the example there are twice as many conversion chambers as dynamo-hydraulic machines, and thus more particularly six CH1-CH6 conversion chambers for three reversible PT1, PT2, PT3 dynamo-hydraulic machines. The device further comprises hydraulic readjusting means P1, P2, P3 for readjusting the liquid level to its initial state to carry out pumping or turbining in the conversion chambers. They take the liquid at the same source as the dynamo-hydraulic machines PT1, PT2, PT3, in the example the surrounding aquatic environment, and return the liquid to said source. Preferably, the readjustment means are pumps (P1, P2 and P3) which operate at a low pressure difference, just sufficient to balance the pressure drops and the possible differential pressure of hydrostatic pressure resulting from the height of water in the conversion chambers relative to the source level. Preferably, the readjustment means are bidirectional pumps also capable of emptying or accelerating the emptying of the conversion chambers when they must be filled with air before a compression cycle. The distribution means 17 are designed to also ensure the selective connection of each CH1-CH6 conversion chamber with a readjustment pump P1, P2 or P3.
    [0018] According to the invention, the dynamo-hydraulic means for pumping and hydraulic expansion comprise machines PT1, PT2, PT3 which differ from each other by their respective pressure range measured in operation at their high pressure port 16, and which differ also by their maximum flow.
    [0019] 30 There are at least two dynamo-hydraulic machines, one for moderate pressures and high flows at the start of pumping and at the end of the turbines, the other for higher pressures and lower flows in the more advanced phase pumping or in earlier phase of turbining.
    [0020] In the example shown, there are three different machines, namely: - a machine PT1 for the start of the pressure rise during pumping and the end of the pressure reduction during the turbining, operating in a range moderate pressures and a high flow rate range; a PT2 machine for the end of the pressure rise during pumping and the beginning of the pressure drop during the turbining, operating in a high pressure range and a moderate flow range; and a PT3 machine for the delivery of the compressed air into the tank 20 at the end of the storage cycle and the admission of the compressed air into the conversion chamber at the beginning of the destocking cycle, operating in a range close pressures close to the pressure of the reservoir 20 and a corresponding narrow flow range. It is furthermore planned to phase out the respective cycles of the conversion chambers CH1 - CH6 so that dynamo-hydraulic machines and associated dynamo-electric machines are always in active conversion operation with one or the other. other conversion chambers at that time in the corresponding pressure range. The operation of the device will now be explained and the description of the device and the process completed at the same time. Storage phase With reference to FIG. 3, the operation of the device 30 during the conversion of the electrical energy into aeraulic energy in the conversion chamber CH1 will be described. Figure 3 comprises three windows 3a, 3b, 3c respectively showing the characteristic steps of the storage phase for a conversion chamber. The windows 3a and 3b correspond to the productive steps and the window 3c corresponds to a non-productive step, which could be called a resetting step.
    [0021] At the start (window 3a), the conversion chamber CH1 is full of air at atmospheric pressure, the water is at a minimum level. The bidirectional communication and venting valves 12 are closed so that the upper part of the conversion chamber, occupied by air, is hermetically closed. The electrical energy to be stored supplies the dynamo-electric machine MG1 coupled to the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT1 which pumps water into the conversion chamber CH1 under moderate pressure. At a certain intermediate stage of water filling of the conversion chamber CH1, corresponding substantially to the maximum pressure for which the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT1 is provided, the distribution means 17 interrupt the connection of the conversion chamber CH1 with the PT1 dynamo-hydraulic machine and establish the connection of the conversion chamber with the high-pressure port 16 of the dynamomechanical machine PT2 coupled to the dynamo-electric machine MG2. The electrical energy to be stored supplies the dynamo-electric machine MG2 coupled to the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT2 which pumps the water into the conversion chamber CH1 under increased pressure. When another intermediate stage of water filling of the conversion chamber CH1, corresponding substantially to the maximum pressure for which the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT2 is provided, is then reached, the distribution means 17 interrupt the connection of the combustion chamber. CH1 conversion with the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT2 and establish the connection of the conversion chamber with the high pressure port 16 of 25 the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT3 coupled to the dynamo-electric machine MG3. At the same time the valve 11 opens window 3b of Figure 3). The electrical energy to be stored supplies the dynamo-electric machine MG3 coupled to the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT3 which pumps the water into the conversion chamber CH1 under the pressure of the storage tank 20 until 30 substantially all the compressed air present in the CH1 conversion chamber has been pumped into the tank 20. With the dynamo-hydraulic means, the liquid, typically the water of the aquatic medium, is pumped to form a liquid piston in the conversion chamber in which is trapped a quantity of air. With reference to windows 3a and 3b, the water / air interface moves upwardly from the conversion chamber forming a piston compressing the air trapped in the conversion chamber until this air reaches the pressure. prevailing in the storage tank.
    [0022] The liquid piston has the advantage of limiting energy losses due to friction compared to a conventional rigid piston compressor. In addition, the use of the liquid piston makes it possible to limit heat losses, that is to say to limit heating due to compression, which is therefore quasi-isothermal. To reinforce this quasi-isothermal characteristic, the conversion chambers preferably contain thermal conductors which thermally connect the air and the liquid in the conversion chambers. These thermal conductors are for example a bundle of vertical metal tubes, open at both ends, extending over substantially the entire height of each chamber. These conductors discharge the compression heat of the air in the compression cycle into the water, which reduces the work required for compression, and warms the air with heat from the water in the expansion cycle. which increases the work provided by the relaxation of the air. For example, for storage of air in a storage tank 20 to 100 meters deep, and therefore subjected to an absolute hydrostatic pressure of about 1.1 MPa, the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT1 operates in the low pressure range. (atmospheric pressure up to 0.3 or 0.4 MPa), the PT2 dynamo-hydraulic machine operates in the intermediate pressure range (from 0.3 to 0.4 MPa up to 1.1 MPa) and the machine PT3 dynamomechanics operate in a narrow range around 1.1 MPa. Then, with reference to the window 3c of FIG. 3, a non-productive time allows the water contained in the conversion chamber CH1 to be emptied so as to be able to restart a storage cycle in this chamber. Bidirectional communication valve 11 is then closed and vent valve 12 is opened. The hydraulic readjusting means are actuated to empty the conversion chamber until emptying almost all of its water.
    [0023] In this way, the conversion device carries out several pumping cycles, each cycle passing through the successive pressure ranges. The duration of a cycle is scheduled between 30 seconds and 5 minutes.
    [0024] Destocking Phase Referring to FIG. 4, the operation of the device during the conversion of the pneumatic energy into electrical energy will be described. FIG. 4 comprises three windows 4a, 4b, 4c respectively presenting the characteristic steps of the destocking phase for a conversion chamber CH1. The windows 4a and 4b correspond to the productive steps and the window 4c corresponds to a non-productive or reset stage. Initially (window 4a), the conversion chamber is full of water. The venting means 12 are closed. For destocking, the bidirectional communication valve 11 is opened so that the compressed air present in the storage tank 20 is partly transferred to the conversion chamber CH1 and displaces part of the water contained in the conversion chamber through the PT3 20 high-pressure dynamo-hydraulic machine operating in a turbine driving the MG3 dynamo-electric machine operating as a generator. When the quantity of air present in the conversion chamber CH 1 is such that this air is capable of occupying the entire volume of the conversion chamber 25 if it is expanded to atmospheric pressure, the bidirectional communication valve 11 is closed. (window 4b of Figure 4). At the same time the distribution means 17 interrupt the connection of the conversion chamber CH1 with the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT3 and establish the connection of the conversion chamber with the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT2.
    [0025] The air relaxes in a quasi-isothermal manner while continuing to repress the water, but now through the dynamo-hydraulic machine PT2, dedicated to medium pressures, then after a new tilting operated by the distribution means 17, through the PT1 dynamo-hydraulic machine dedicated to moderate pressures.
    [0026] It is planned to act on the dynamo-hydraulic machines to allow the dynamic variation of certain physical quantities (such as the speed of rotation of the machine, the angle of the blades, the position of the distributor ...). It is thus possible to regulate the flow of the dynamo-hydraulic machines so that the associated dynamo-electric machine operates at constant power. This regulation has the advantage of improving the stability of the power of the device and thus limiting variations in the electrical power exchanged between the device and the electrical distribution network.
    [0027] Next with reference to the window 4c of FIG. 4, a non-productive or reset time allows the water filling of the conversion chamber to restart a destocking cycle. The bidirectional communication valve 11 is then closed and the vent valve 12 is opened to allow the addition of water. The hydraulic readjustment means P1 are connected to the conversion chamber CH1 by the distribution means 17 and actuated to fill the conversion chamber with water. In this way, the conversion device carries out several turbining cycles, each cycle passing through the successive pressure ranges. The duration of a cycle is provided between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Time organization of the connection of the dynamo-hydraulic machines with the conversion chambers 25 With reference to FIGS. 5 to 7, the pumping or turbining cycles of each conversion chamber are time shifted so that at each given instant each dynamomechanical machine The hydraulic pump is connected to a conversion chamber in the corresponding pump or turbine stage. In other words, in the example with three pressure ranges there are at any time three conversion chambers, one in the moderate pressure range, the other in the intermediate pressure range and the third in the pressure range. superior, the latter communicating with the storage tank 20.
    [0028] The table of FIG. 5 represents an example of the temporal organization of the connection of the dynamo-hydraulic machines with the conversion chambers on one cycle, in the example of three pumps and / or turbines and six conversion chambers. Each conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4, CH5, CH6) is successively connected to the three dynamo-hydraulic machines PT1, PT2, PT3 (in the example of pumping) before being connected to one of the readjustment means Pl, P2 or P3. A complete cycle (twice the duration of a compression or a relaxation for a chamber) is represented in which each column represents a duration of 1/6 of the cycle. In this organization, each pump and / or turbine performs its work synchronously on the chambers. Their switching from one room to another is also performed at the same time. This organization helps to limit the variations of electrical power exchanged between the conversion device and the distribution network. In addition, this makes it possible to limit thermal energy losses. According to another embodiment and with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7, provision is made to introduce a phase shift between the instants of passage from one pump-turbine to another in a chamber, so that the corresponding hydraulic switches 20 to power failures, no longer simultaneous. The table in FIG. 6 shows an example of phase shift of 1/18 of the duration of a cycle between each pump and / or turbine. The substantially continuous operation of the pumps and / or turbines is maintained, but there is now a pause for each chamber and for each passage from one pump and / or turbine to the other in each conversion chamber. Having kept the same number of conversion chambers, the time available for returning the chamber to its initial state (by P1, P2 or P3) is reduced by the duration of the breaks made.
    [0029] In this way, the power fluctuations are all the more limited. With reference to FIG. 7, an example of a timing diagram of the hydraulic powers envisaged in compression for a device with three pumps and the last of which works solely at pressure and at constant power is presented. A phase shift of 1/12 of cycle is present between the pump 1 and the pumps 2 and 3. The pumps 1 and 2 make it possible to reach the storage pressure and the pump 3 allows the discharge of the compressed air to The reservoir. The phase shift of the pump commutations makes it possible to limit the fluctuations of the total hydraulic power resulting and thus makes it possible to limit the fluctuations of total electrical power.
    [0030] Of course, the invention is not limited to the examples which have just been described and numerous adjustments can be made to these examples without departing from the scope of the invention.
    [0031] Of course, the various features, shapes, variants and embodiments of the invention may be associated with each other in various combinations to the extent that they are not incompatible or exclusive of each other. In particular all the variants and embodiments described above are combinable with each other. Examples of embodiments have been presented with three PT1, PT2 and PT3 dynamo-hydraulic machines that can be three pumps and three separate turbines or that can be three pump-turbines. The device may comprise a number of pumps and / or turbines other than three. According to other embodiments, the pumps and the expansion machines are provided in different numbers. One or more additional systems, for example electrical capacitors, may be added in order to smooth the electrical power consumed (or provided for destocking). Likewise, the number of conversion chambers may be different from that indicated in the example. It is desirable, however, to have at least one more than the number of pumps or turbines. The number of rooms is not necessarily a multiple of the number of pumps and / or turbines. Regarding the readjustment means, it may be envisaged the use of one or more other technologies, combined or not to perform the filling or emptying of the conversion chambers. It can be cited the use of hydraulic ejectors, the natural use of gravity or potential energy recovery present in another room.
    [0032] The bidirectional communication means may comprise separate paths for the air going to the storage tank 20 and coming from the storage tank 20, possibly with each its valve in place of the common valve 11.
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    Claims (19)
    [0001]
    REVENDICATIONS1. Energy converting device for converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa, and storing it in the form of compressed air, the device comprising: - dynamo-electric machines (MG1, MG2, MG3 ) which are in electrical power connection with a network, - dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) mechanically connected to the dynamo-electric machines, - at least one conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3) capable of on the one hand to contain liquid pumped by dynamo-hydraulic machines operating in pumps or to receive liquid for supplying the dynamo-hydraulic machines operating in expansion machines, and on the other hand to contain air, so that the liquid present in the chamber forms a liquid piston for compressing or relaxing the air, - a storage tank (20) for compressed air at a storage pressure, 20 - a bidirectional aeraulic communication means the (11, 13) closable between the conversion chambers (CH1 - CH6) and the storage tank (20), characterized in that each dynamo-hydraulic machine (PT1, PT2, PT3) is provided to operate in a range of respective pressure at its high pressure port (16) for stepwise pumping or hydraulic expansion in each conversion chamber successively with a plurality of said dynamo-hydraulic machines to or from the desired storage pressure, respectively; the pressure range being narrower than the difference between the low pressure and the storage pressure, and in that distribution means (17) are provided for connecting each conversion chamber successively with at least two dynamometers. hydraulic units designed to operate in different pressure ranges.
    [0002]
    2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one dynamo-hydraulic machine (PT3) is provided to operate in a narrow pressure range substantially corresponding to the pressure of the storage tank (20).
    [0003]
    3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) are mounted hydraulically in parallel with each other between a source of low pressure liquid and the at least one chamber conversion (CH1, CH2, CH3).
    [0004]
    4. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the storage tank (20) is subaquatic and open at the bottom to receive water from the aquatic environment enclosing a pocket of air at a defined pressure by the immersion depth of the tank.
    [0005]
    5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is provided to achieve the conversion of electrical energy into aeraulic energy and conversely several cycles of respectively pumping or turbining each cycle passing through the successive pressure ranges. .
    [0006]
    6. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises at least two conversion chambers (CH1, CH2, CH3) to permanently maintain the energy flow in the dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3).
    [0007]
    7. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that the cycles of liquid level variation in the conversion chambers (CH1, CH2, CH3) are out of phase between conversion chambers, each machine 3036887 24 dynamo-hydraulic (PT1, PT2 , PT3) being sequentially connected to a plurality of conversion chambers being staggered in time in the pressure range corresponding to this dynamo-hydraulic machine. 5
    [0008]
    8. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that there is a pause when the at least one conversion chamber passes from a dynamo-hydraulic machine (PT1, PT2, PT3) to another . 10
    [0009]
    9. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises hydraulic readjustment means (P1, P2, P3) to readjust the liquid level to its initial state to perform the pumping or turbining in the at least one conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3).
    [0010]
    10. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises more conversion chambers (CH1, CH2, CH3) than dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3). 20
    [0011]
    11. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) are of the pump-turbine type adapted to operate in pump or vice versa turbine. 25
    [0012]
    12. Device according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) are pump-turbines of the Kaplan or Dériaz type.
    [0013]
    13. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the dynamo-electric machines (MG1, MG2, MG3) are reversible generating engines.
    [0014]
    14. Device according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the bidirectional communication means (11, 13) are closed except during a final phase of the compression and during an initial phase of the expansion.
    [0015]
    15. A method of converting electrical energy into aeraulic energy and vice versa in which: a liquid piston liquid is pumped into a conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3) in which a quantity of air is trapped until this air reaches a pressure of a storage tank (20) of compressed air and then transferring compressed air from the conversion chamber to the storage tank (20), and / or turbine a liquid admitting of the compressed air in a conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3) in containing a quantity of liquid so that the liquid is discharged through a turbine, characterized in that the pumping or turbining of the liquid takes place successively at least two pumping stages or turbination respectively provided to take place in different pressure ranges. 20
    [0016]
    16. Conversion process according to claim 15, characterized in that, during the turbining and after admitting a quantity of compressed air into the conversion chamber still containing water, the compressed air inlet is closed. of the storage tank (20), and the compressed air present in the conversion chamber is expanded while the remaining liquid is discharged to be turbined.
    [0017]
    17. Conversion process according to claim 15, characterized in that: the liquid is pumped by dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) driven by at least one electric motor operating with the electrical energy derived from an electrical network, the liquid is impelled by dynamo-hydraulic machines (PT1, PT2, PT3) which drive an electric generator to produce electrical energy restored to the network. 5
    [0018]
    18. Conversion process according to one of claims 15 to 17, characterized in that: - during pumping and after transferring the compressed air into the storage tank (20), the liquid contained in the chamber is drained conversion (CH1, CH2, CH3), 10 - during the turbining and after having relaxed the air contained in the conversion chamber (CH1, CH2, CH3), said chamber is filled with liquid again. -
    [0019]
    19. Conversion process according to one of claims 15 to 18, characterized in that the compression of the air and / or the expansion of the air in the at least one conversion chamber is quasi-isothermal.
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