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by asdfadsfgfdda 1807 days ago
The linde cycle is not used industrially, they are using a reverse brayton cycle. This cycle use air as the refrigerant, and is probably the most widely distributed industrial cycle in the world (because liquified gases do not transport easily).
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Good find. Looks like state of the art in liquid air energy storage was 96% on storage side and 77% on recovery.

("Thermodynamic analysis of a hybrid energy storage system based on compressed air and liquid air" by Bharath Kantharaj, Seamus Garvey, Andrew Pimm)

https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/OutputFile/75803...