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Title: RPCSIM-SCO2 (Reactor Power and Control SIMulator for Supercritical CO2)

Abstract

The RPCSIM-SCO2 code performs a dynamic simulation of a supercritical CO2 (carbon dioxide) Brayton cycle loop. The code is based on the MathLabTM program SimulinkTM from Mathworks. The Supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) model uses direct calls to the National Institute of Standards Refprop 9.0 Fortran library for the Equation-of-State (EOS) model for the CO2 working fluid (Lemmon, 2010). The calls to Refprop are made in the form of Simulink s-Functions that use a C interface to directly call the compiled Refprop fortran program library functions. Minor changes to the code can be made to use other working fluids. The code is intended to be used to perform many different types of dynamic cycle analysis for supercritical CO2 power producing systems. The code will calculate the transient temperature and pressure and all other thermodynamic properties at the inlet and outlet of each component given user supplied inputs such as rotor shaft speed, and heater power.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1231558
Report Number(s):
RPCSIM-SCO2; 002784IBMPC00
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Software
Software Revision:
00
Software Package Number:
002784
Software Package Contents:
Media Directory; Software Abstract; Media includes Source Code;/1 CD-ROM
Software CPU:
IBMPC
Open Source:
No
Source Code Available:
Yes
Related Software:
x86 Intel PC uning Microsoft Excel 7.0 and NIST Refprop 9.0
Country of Publication:
United States

Citation Formats

Wright, Steven A. RPCSIM-SCO2 (Reactor Power and Control SIMulator for Supercritical CO2). Computer software. Vers. 00. USDOE. 12 Sep. 2012. Web.
Wright, Steven A. (2012, September 12). RPCSIM-SCO2 (Reactor Power and Control SIMulator for Supercritical CO2) (Version 00) [Computer software].
Wright, Steven A. RPCSIM-SCO2 (Reactor Power and Control SIMulator for Supercritical CO2). Computer software. Version 00. September 12, 2012.
@misc{osti_1231558,
title = {RPCSIM-SCO2 (Reactor Power and Control SIMulator for Supercritical CO2), Version 00},
author = {Wright, Steven A.},
abstractNote = {The RPCSIM-SCO2 code performs a dynamic simulation of a supercritical CO2 (carbon dioxide) Brayton cycle loop. The code is based on the MathLabTM program SimulinkTM from Mathworks. The Supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) model uses direct calls to the National Institute of Standards Refprop 9.0 Fortran library for the Equation-of-State (EOS) model for the CO2 working fluid (Lemmon, 2010). The calls to Refprop are made in the form of Simulink s-Functions that use a C interface to directly call the compiled Refprop fortran program library functions. Minor changes to the code can be made to use other working fluids. The code is intended to be used to perform many different types of dynamic cycle analysis for supercritical CO2 power producing systems. The code will calculate the transient temperature and pressure and all other thermodynamic properties at the inlet and outlet of each component given user supplied inputs such as rotor shaft speed, and heater power.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1231558}, year = {Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
note =
}

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