Thermodynamic Performance Comparison and Optimization of sCO2 Brayton Cycle, tCO2 Brayton Cycle and tCO2 Rankine Cycle

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  • Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610213, China

Online published: 2023-11-28

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

In this paper, to further improve thermodynamic performance of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle, simple/recompression transcritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle (STBC/RTBC) and simple/recompression transcritical carbon dioxide Rankine cycle (STRC/RTRC) are proposed. Thermal and exergy performance analysis and optimization for the above four transcritical CO2 cycles and simple/recompression supercritical cycle (SSBC/RSBC) are conducted. The effect of key thermodynamic parameters on those CO2 cycle performance is studied. Results indicate that the improvements of thermodynamic performance of CO2 cycle are obvious when transcritical Brayton and Rankine cycle are applied in it. Within the same range of optimization variables, the maximum thermal efficiency improvements of RTRC and RTBC are 4.98% and 3.6%, and maximum exergy efficiency improvements of RTRC and RTBC are 7.08% and 5.13% when compared with RSBC. Moreover, the thermodynamic performances of STBC and STRC are also outstanding than that of SSBC. This work provides a way to further improve the thermodynamic performance of CO2 power cycle.

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JIANG Yu, ZHAN Li, TIAN Xuelian, NIE Changhua . Thermodynamic Performance Comparison and Optimization of sCO2 Brayton Cycle, tCO2 Brayton Cycle and tCO2 Rankine Cycle[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(2) : 611 -627 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1708-z

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