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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 345, 2021
20th Conference on Power System Engineering
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Article Number | 00005 | |
Number of page(s) | 12 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202134500005 | |
Published online | 12 October 2021 |
The efficiency of transcritical CO2 cycle near critical point and with high temperature
1 Department of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Sources, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
2 Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
3 Centre for Energy Research, Department of Thermohydraulics, POB. 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
* Corresponding author: sindu.daniarta@pwr.edu.pl
Efficiency is a key parameter used to assess the quality of operation of power generation systems and devices applied for converting one type of energy to the other. Although, in the end, an investment project is mainly evaluated by economic aspect. Furthermore, many researchers have been investigating the possible types of energy conversion systems and devices applied for power generation and utilizing different types of working fluids. This paper presents the inside into transcritical carbon dioxide (CO2) cycle and the gradients of its efficiency. Transcritical CO2 cycle (TCO2C) here refers to a CO2-based thermal power generation cycle absorbing heat from a heat source (ideally with constant pressure) till the supercritical state is reached. It is followed by an expansion to a sub-critical superheated or even two-phase (wet) state. As alternatives, trilateral flash cycle (TFC) and organic Rankine cycle (ORC) utilizing CO2 are also introduced in this paper. The calculation in this study is computed based on MATLAB integrated with thermophysical properties like CoolProp and REFPROP, the mathematical models of the system are built and calculated with the same heat sink temperature of 224.41 K, and the heat source temperature is varied between 274.41 K and 500 K. At a certain temperature, the obtained result shows that the efficiency of the TCO2C is lower than the efficiency of ORC. Another result proves that the quality of working fluid at the end of the expansion process significantly influences the efficiency of the cycle.
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