Contentful ID
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Market
Utility
Keywords
ARPA-E
Brayton Energy, LLC
Contentful ID
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Company Values
Entity Description
Brayton Energy designs and manufactures turbine, heat exchangers and turbomachinery for thermal power plants.
Entity Name
Brayton Energy, LLC
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Technology Areas
Technology Description
The Brayton Energy team will develop an energy storage system that combines thermal storage and a gas turbine to generate power. When the system is charging, an electrically driven heat pump will accumulate thermal energy in a molten salt solution, which can then be discharged later by heating gas and sending it through the generation turbine. Brayton Energy’s innovation lies in their reversible turbine design, in which each turbine acts as the compression stage for the other, whether during charging or discharging. This approach simplifies the system and increases durability.
Technology Name
Improved Laughlin-Brayton Cycle Energy Storage