Thermal efficiency of direct, inverse and sCO2 gas turbine cycles intended for small power plants

Manuel Valdés, Rubén Abbas, Antonio Rovira and Javier Martín-Aragón

Energy, 2016, vol. 100, issue C, 66-72

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study whether the efficiency loss that takes place at low Reynolds numbers (Re) can be a problem for small power gas turbines and, if this is the case, to assess whether the use of alternative power cycles such as supercritical sCO2 or inverse Joule–Brayton cycles might solve this problem.

Keywords: Low Reynolds number; Small gas turbine; sCO2 cycle; Scaling down gas turbines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.01.072

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