The Influence of ENSO on the Long‐Term Water Storage Anomalies in the Middle‐Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Basin: Evaluation and Analysis
Journal Article
Li, X., Jin, T., Liu, B., Chao, N., Li, F., & Cai, Z. (2023)
The Influence of ENSO on the Long‐Term Water Storage Anomalies in the Middle‐Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Basin: Evaluation and Analysis. Earth and Space Science, 10(10), Article e2023EA003007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ea003007
Recent extreme events in the Middle‐Lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin (MLYRB) are proven to be possibly linked to the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events as indi...
Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers
Book Chapter
Yang, L., Cai, Z., Li, C., Guo, C., & He, Q. (2023)
Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers. In J. Miocic, N. Heinemann, K. Edlmann, J. Alcalde, & R. Schultz (Eds.), Enabling Secure Subsurface Storage in Future Energy Systems. London: Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp528-2022-74
Aquifers have advantages over salt caverns as the storage vessels for compressed air energy storage due to their wider availability for suitable sites and lower one-off capita...
Development of a Novel Simulator for Modelling Underground Hydrogen and Gas Mixture Storage
Journal Article
Cai, Z., Zhang, K., & Guo, C. (2022)
Development of a Novel Simulator for Modelling Underground Hydrogen and Gas Mixture Storage. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(14), 8929-8942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.12.224
Underground hydrogen storage can store grid-scale energy for balancing both short-term and long-term inter-seasonal supply and demand. However, there is no numerical simulator...
Novel machine learning approach for solar photovoltaic energy output forecast using extra-terrestrial solar irradiance
Journal Article
Fjelkestam Frederiksen, C. A., & Cai, Z. (2022)
Novel machine learning approach for solar photovoltaic energy output forecast using extra-terrestrial solar irradiance. Applied Energy, 306, Article 118152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.118152
• Extra-terrestrial Solar Irradiance has been validated for PV output forecasting. • The machine learning approach successfully captures huge intra-daily PV output variations....
Utility-scale Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: UK Perspectives and Technology
Journal Article
Wallace, R. L., Cai, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, K., & Guo, C. (2021)
Utility-scale Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: UK Perspectives and Technology. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(49), 25137-25159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.05.034
To reduce effects from anthropogenically induced climate change renewable energy systems are being implemented at an accelerated rate, the UKs wind capacity alone is set to mo...
Analysis of the Polypropylene-Based Aluminium-Air Battery
Journal Article
Tan, W. C., Saw, L. H., Yew, M. C., Sun, D., Cai, Z., Chong, W. T., & Kuo, P. (2021)
Analysis of the Polypropylene-Based Aluminium-Air Battery. Frontiers in Energy Research, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.599846
Global energy demand is rising due to the rapid development and adoption of new technologies in every sector. Hence, there is a need to introduce a clean energy source that do...
The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers
Journal Article
Guo, C., Li, C., Zhang, K., Cai, Z., Ma, T., Maggi, F., …Shen, L. (2021)
The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers. Applied Energy, 286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116513
Widely distributed aquifers have been proposed as effective storage reservoirs for compressed air energy storage (CAES). This aims to overcome the limitations of geological co...
Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs
Conference Proceeding
Yang, L., Guo, C., Li, C., He, Q., Zhang, K., & Cai, Z. (2020)
Modelling a field-scale compressed air energy storage in porous rock reservoirs. In Volume 4: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Applied Energy, Part 3, Sweden, 2019
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) is one of the promising methods to store the surplus solar and wind energy
in a grid scale . In this study, we used a non...
Estimation of component contributions to total terrestrial water storage change in the Yangtze River basin
Journal Article
Chao, N., Jin, T., Cai, Z., Chen, G., Liu, X., & Wang, Z. (2021)
Estimation of component contributions to total terrestrial water storage change in the Yangtze River basin. Journal of Hydrology, 595, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125661
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) is a key variable in global and regional hydrological cycles. In this study, the TWS changes in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) were derived usin...
Numerical investigation of cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers
Journal Article
Yang, L., Cai, Z., Li, C., He, Q., Ma, Y., & Guo, C. (2020)
Numerical investigation of cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers. Applied Energy, 269, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115044
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is one of the promising technologies to store the renewable energies such as surplus solar and wind energy in a grid scale. Due to the wid...