Transcritical or supercritical CO2 cycles using both low- and high-temperature heat sources

Y.M. Kim, C.G. Kim and D. Favrat

Energy, 2012, vol. 43, issue 1, 402-415

Abstract: In CO2 cycles with high-temperature heat sources that are used in applications such as nuclear power, concentrated solar power, and combustion, partial condensation transcritical CO2 (T-CO2) cycles or recompression supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) cycles are considered to be promising cycles; this is because these cycles cause a reduction in the large internal irreversibility in the recuperator owing to the higher specific heat of the high-pressure side than that of the low-pressure side. However, if heat is available in the low-temperature range, the T-CO2 Rankine cycles (or fully-cooled S-CO2 cycles) will be more effective than the T-CO2 Brayton cycles (or less-cooled S-CO2 cycles) and even than the partial condensation T-CO2 cycles (or recompression S-CO2 cycles). This is because the compression work is reduced while achieving the same temperature rise by heat recovery through the recuperator before the high-temperature heater.

Keywords: Transcritical CO2; Supercritical CO2; Rankine cycle; Brayton cycle; Thermal energy storage (TES); Exergy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.03.076

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