Monatomic working gases vs air for the closed Brayton cycle
Conference
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OSTI ID:5893279
Monatomic gas mixtures have low Prandtl numbers, as low as 0.25 or even lower, compared to about 0.7 for air. In a closed Brayton cycle using a low Prandtl number working gas, the three heat exchangers in the cycle will in general be smaller than in a comparable cycle using air. A system study has been made to compare several promising monatomic gases with air, and to explore the economic incentive to replace air in the closed Brayton cycle with a monatomic gas.
- OSTI ID:
- 5893279
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8509221-
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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