Analysis of Brayton Cycles Utilizing Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
- Noblis, Reston, VA (United States)
This white paper documents a detailed and extensive Brayton cycle analysis that was performed to better understand at a fundamental level the dependence of the Brayton cycle performance on operating conditions, working fluid, supercritical fluid properties, and some cycle non-idealities. This work was performed to better understand the factors controlling Brayton cycle performance and optimal operating conditions, particularly for cycles utilizing supercritical CO2 (sCO2) as the working fluid. The focus of this study is on cycle performance, particularly efficiency. No cost estimates were performed. However, as a single indirect measure of cycle cost, some sensitivity analyses on specific power (net output divided by working fluid mass flow rate) were included.
- Research Organization:
- NETL
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE), Office of Clean Energy Systems (FE-22)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0004001
- OSTI ID:
- 1490264
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-4001/070114
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
An Assessment of Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Integrated with Generic Heat Sources (Presentation)
An Assessment of Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Integrated with Generic Heat Sources (Report)
Coupling a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle to a Helium-Cooled Reactor.
Conference
·
Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
·
OSTI ID:1489775
An Assessment of Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Integrated with Generic Heat Sources (Report)
Conference
·
Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
·
OSTI ID:1490256
Coupling a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle to a Helium-Cooled Reactor.
Technical Report
·
Thu Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2015
·
OSTI ID:1236729