A novel triple power cycle featuring a gas turbine cycle with supercritical carbon dioxide and organic Rankine cycles: Thermoeconomic analysis and optimization

Mohammadi, Kasra; Ellingwood, Kevin; Powell, Kody

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113123

A novel triple power cycle featuring a gas turbine cycle with supercritical carbon dioxide and organic Rankine cycles: Thermoeconomic analysis and optimization

Journal Article · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Energy Conversion and Management

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113123· OSTI ID:1864039

Mohammadi, Kasra ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[2]

Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); University of Utah
Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

In this study, a novel triple power cycle is proposed where waste heat from a gas turbine cycle is utilized to drive a supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO₂) recompression cycle and a recuperative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) in sequence. A detailed thermoeconomic model is developed and implemented in MATLAB to evaluate the performance of the proposed cycle under different operating conditions. Optimization using a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is performed to minimize the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) and determine the optimum design conditions of the cycle. The optimization results show that for a 100 MW cycle, the overall thermal efficiency and LCOE are 0.521 and $$\$$52.819$/MWh, respectively. The turbine inlet temperature of the gas turbine and s-CO₂ cycles are found as the most influential parameters on the thermoeconomic performance of the triple cycle. The proposed triple cycle shows an excellent waste energy recovery potential and superiority over a very thermodynamically efficient cycle from the literature, which included a gas turbine topping cycle and a complex cascade s-CO₂ power cycle used a bottoming cycle. As a result, the proposed triple cycle shows up to 0.9% points higher efficiency while it has fewer heat exchangers and turbomachinery than the cycle from the literature.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0007712

OSTI ID:: 1864039

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1777005

Journal Information:: Energy Conversion and Management, Journal Name: Energy Conversion and Management Vol. 220; ISSN 0196-8904

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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