A Scalable Compact Additively Manufactured Molten Salt to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Heat Exchanger for Solar Thermal Application

Tano, Ines-Noelly; Rasouli, Erfan; Ziev, Tracey; Seo, Junwon; Lamprinakos, Nicholas; Vaishnav, Parth; Rollett, Anthony; Wu, Ziheng; Narayanan, Vinod

doi:10.1115/1.4063081

Title: A Scalable Compact Additively Manufactured Molten Salt to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Heat Exchanger for Solar Thermal Application

Journal Article · 22 August 2023 · Journal of Solar Energy Engineering

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063081 · OSTI ID:2441277

Tano, Ines-Noelly ^[1]; Rasouli, Erfan ^[2]; Ziev, Tracey ^[3]; Seo, Junwon ^[3]; Lamprinakos, Nicholas ^[3]; Vaishnav, Parth ^[4]; Rollett, Anthony ^[3]; Wu, Ziheng ^[3]; Narayanan, Vinod ^[2]

University of California, Davis, CA (United States); University of California Davis
University of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Design of an additively manufactured molten salt (MS) to supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) primary heat exchanger (PHE) for solar thermal power generation is presented. The PHE is designed to handle temperatures up to 720 °C on the MS side and an internal pressure of 200 bar on the sCO₂ side. In the core, MS flows through a three-dimensional periodic lattice network, while sCO₂ flows within pin arrays. The design includes integrated sCO₂ headers located within the MS flow, allowing for a counterflow design of the PHE. The sCO₂ headers are configured to enable uniform flow distribution into each sCO₂ plate while withstanding an internal pressure of 200 bar and minimizing obstruction to the flow of MS around it. The structural integrity of the design is verified on additively manufactured (AM) 316 stainless steel sub-scale specimens. An experimentally validated, correlation-based sectional PHE core thermofluidic model is developed to study the impact of flow and geometrical parameters on the PHE performance, with varied parameters including the mass flowrate, surface roughness, and PHE dimensions. A process-based cost model is used to determine the impact of parameter variation on build cost. The model results show that a heat exchanger with a power density of 18.6 MW/m³ (including sCO₂ header volume) and effectiveness of 0.88 can be achieved at a heat capacity rate ratio of 0.8. As a result, the impact of design and AM machine parameters on the cost of the PHE are assessed.

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Research Organization:: University of California, Davis, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0008536

OSTI ID:: 2441277

Journal Information:: Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Journal Name: Journal of Solar Energy Engineering Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 146; ISSN 0199-6231

Publisher:: ASMECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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