US Patent Issued to Hydrostor on March 24 for "Inhibiting the champagne effect in hydrostatically compensated CAES systems" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,589, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hydrostor Inc. (Toronto).

"Inhibiting the champagne effect in hydrostatically compensated CAES systems" was invented by Davin Young (Toronto), Craig Branch (London) and David Brown (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a hydrostatically compensated compressed air energy storage system comprising to inhibit champagne effect conditions, can include charging the system; changing the system into a storage mode; and before a dissolved gas concentration in a layer of compensation liquid exceeds a champagne effect saturation threshold, operating the system in a dilution cycle...