11.4 Liquid gas tanks
Compressed air energy storage has a strong competitor - liquid air tanks. The main difference - apart from the gas compression system being turned into a liquefaction system - is that in the same tank volume we can store much larger amounts of gas if it is in liquid form. An additional sentiment is connected with this technology, because similarly to the production of monocrystals, where the creator of the method was a Pole, Jan Czochralski, the first scientists who were able to liquefy air were professors of the Jagiellonian University, Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wróblewski, in 1883. The process of liquefying and then producing electricity is shown in a video animation (see "Liquid Air Energy Storage Animation 2018"). It depicts the idea of using liquid air production as a storage tank for electricity production. The Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) system, conceptually developed in the UK as a modular system for replication to high-capacity manufacturing plants, was launched as a pilot in a plant in Slough.
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