MADA’s Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) technology takes advantage of sources of waste heat and cold from gas turbines, LNG facilities and industrial processes, as well as excess renewable power on the grid to increase the efficiency of these technologies, store the energy for later use by the host facility or the grid and increase output beyond the host facility’s capacity during periods of greatest demand.

MADA’s novel, proprietary Integrated Liquid Air Energy Storage for use with gas turbines or engines (LAGT) integrates liquid air energy storage into the operations of existing (or new) gas-fired power plants. This has the benefit of providing a high quality heat source from the gas turbine/engine waste heat to superheat the liquid air during discharge, driving significantly higher round trip efficiency for the LAES, while at the same time taking advantage of the waste cold of the discharging liquid air to eliminate CO2 emissions from the power plant exhaust and, specifically for gas turbines, to cool the air entering the gas turbine, increasing the output and efficiency of the gas turbine.

MADA’s Turbine Inlet Air Chilling (TIAC) when integrated with gas turbines, increases the fuel efficiency and peak output for the unit at ambient temperatures above 60°F, with exponential improvements in performance as ambient temperatures increase.