Patent ID: 11873742
Assignee: RONDO ENERGY, INC.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC F  B  C  H  Y | IPC B  F  H

Claim 26:
27. A method of operating a thermal energy storage system, comprising:
storing, by the thermal energy storage system, heat generated from received energy as thermal energy in a thermal storage assemblage;
generating, by the thermal energy storage system, an output fluid flow of fluid that has absorbed heat from the heated thermal storage assemblage, including:
during a first discharge interval, partially discharging the thermal storage assemblage to reduce the temperature of the thermal storage assemblage to a first minimum temperature that is not within a deep-discharge temperature region; and
based on temperature information generated by one or more temperature sensors, initiating a deep discharge cycle of the thermal storage assemblage, during a second discharge interval, to reduce the temperature of the thermal storage assemblage to a second minimum temperature that is within a deep-discharge temperature region that is lower than the first minimum temperature.