Cooling issues for small-scale sCO2 powerplants
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Paper/Presentation Title | Cooling issues for small-scale sCO2 powerplants |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Jahn, Ingo, Duniam, Sam and Veeraragavan, Ananthanarayanan |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISBN | 9780646943770 |
Conference/Event | 17th IAHR International Conference on Cooling Tower and Heat Exchanger |
Event Details | 17th IAHR International Conference on Cooling Tower and Heat Exchanger Delivery In person Event Date 07 to end of 11 Sep 2015 Event Location Gold Coast, Australia |
Abstract | The use of refrigerants and supercritical fluids, such as CO2, as the working fluid in thermodynamic cycle has the potential to revolutionize power generation. Compared to steam Rankine cycles and open loop Brayton cycles, the advantages are higher thermodynamic efficiencies and more compact components. This is of particular interest for small-scale renewable energy systems, such as condensed solar power. However, the highly non-linear properties of the supercritical carbon dioxide, which allow efficient compression near the critical point (31°C) also create new challenges for the heat exchangers and cooling towers. Depending on the cycle design the cooling tower must be capable of cooling and condensing the fluid from the supercritical region to the liquid region. This is a particular challenge asrecuperation and CO2 properties significantly reduces the air temperature increase in Cooler. This paper quantifies the cooling requirements and associated cooling issues created by a small-scale (1MW) solar thermal supercritical Carbon Dioxide power plant operating with a Natural Draft Dry Cooling Tower. |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 4017. Mechanical engineering |
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Byline Affiliations | No affiliation |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z212z/cooling-issues-for-small-scale-sco2-powerplants
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