IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v210y2020ics036054422031584x.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Systematic evaluation of efficiency improvement options for sCO2 Brayton cycles

Author

Listed:
  • Penkuhn, Mathias
  • Tsatsaronis, George

Abstract

Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) based power cycles have gained an increased attention because of their potential to offer a higher cycle efficiency combined with improved process economics and operational flexibility. The potential for further development and commercialization is determined by the right balance between cycle efficiency, design complexity, and economics. The present study analyzes different pathways to improve the design of generic sCO2 Brayton cycles for power generation based on a structured pattern known from conventional water-steam cycles. Starting from a simple cycle design, different options such as preheating, intercooled compression, reheating, and split-compression are investigated. The application of an exergy analysis for each design provides the possibility to identify the location and magnitude of thermodynamic inefficiencies for each design option. With the use of a complexity metric, the offset between efficiency improvement and increase in system size and complexity can be quantified in the absence of appropriate economic data. The results show the inherent trade-off between the increase in efficiency and complexity with the best cycle improvement options being preheating by recuperation, split-compression, and intercooled compression. In principle, the suggested complexity metric approach is useful when evaluating similar systems and provides tangible results for subsequent, more detailed studies.

Suggested Citation

  • Penkuhn, Mathias & Tsatsaronis, George, 2020. "Systematic evaluation of efficiency improvement options for sCO2 Brayton cycles," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:210:y:2020:i:c:s036054422031584x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.118476
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422031584X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2020.118476?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Marchionni, Matteo & Bianchi, Giuseppe & Tassou, Savvas A., 2018. "Techno-economic assessment of Joule-Brayton cycle architectures for heat to power conversion from high-grade heat sources using CO2 in the supercritical state," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 1140-1152.
    2. Binotti, Marco & Astolfi, Marco & Campanari, Stefano & Manzolini, Giampaolo & Silva, Paolo, 2017. "Preliminary assessment of sCO2 cycles for power generation in CSP solar tower plants," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 1007-1017.
    3. Wang, Xurong & Dai, Yiping, 2016. "Exergoeconomic analysis of utilizing the transcritical CO2 cycle and the ORC for a recompression supercritical CO2 cycle waste heat recovery: A comparative study," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 170(C), pages 193-207.
    4. Cao, Yue & Rattner, Alexander S. & Dai, Yiping, 2018. "Thermoeconomic analysis of a gas turbine and cascaded CO2 combined cycle using thermal oil as an intermediate heat-transfer fluid," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 1253-1268.
    5. Wang, Xurong & Yang, Yi & Zheng, Ya & Dai, Yiping, 2017. "Exergy and exergoeconomic analyses of a supercritical CO2 cycle for a cogeneration application," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 971-982.
    6. Crespi, Francesco & Gavagnin, Giacomo & Sánchez, David & Martínez, Gonzalo S., 2017. "Supercritical carbon dioxide cycles for power generation: A review," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 152-183.
    7. Liu, Yaping & Wang, Ying & Huang, Diangui, 2019. "Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle: A state-of-the-art review," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
    8. Thanganadar, Dhinesh & Asfand, Faisal & Patchigolla, Kumar, 2019. "Thermal performance and economic analysis of supercritical Carbon Dioxide cycles in combined cycle power plant," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 255(C).
    9. Le Moullec, Yann, 2013. "Conceptual study of a high efficiency coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture using a supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 32-46.
    10. Iverson, Brian D. & Conboy, Thomas M. & Pasch, James J. & Kruizenga, Alan M., 2013. "Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycles for solar-thermal energy," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 957-970.
    11. Li, Ming-Jia & Xu, Jin-Liang & Cao, Feng & Guo, Jia-Qi & Tong, Zi-Xiang & Zhu, Han-Hui, 2019. "The investigation of thermo-economic performance and conceptual design for the miniaturized lead-cooled fast reactor composing supercritical CO2 power cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 173(C), pages 174-195.
    12. Jack P.C. Kleijnen, 2015. "Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments," International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, Springer, edition 2, number 978-3-319-18087-8, September.
    13. Mecheri, Mounir & Le Moullec, Yann, 2016. "Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycles for coal-fired power plants," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 758-771.
    14. Tsatsaronis, George, 2007. "Definitions and nomenclature in exergy analysis and exergoeconomics," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 249-253.
    15. Chen, Huijuan & Goswami, D. Yogi & Stefanakos, Elias K., 2010. "A review of thermodynamic cycles and working fluids for the conversion of low-grade heat," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 14(9), pages 3059-3067, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Alenezi, A. & Vesely, L. & Kapat, J., 2022. "Exergoeconomic analysis of hybrid sCO2 Brayton power cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 247(C).
    2. Rodríguez-deArriba, Pablo & Crespi, Francesco & Sánchez, David & Muñoz, Antonio & Sánchez, Tomás, 2022. "The potential of transcritical cycles based on CO2 mixtures: An exergy-based analysis," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 199(C), pages 1606-1628.
    3. Sun, Enhui & Ji, Hongfu & Wang, Xiangren & Ma, Wenjing & Zhang, Lei & Xu, Jinliang, 2023. "Proposal of multistage mass storage process to approach isothermal heat rejection of semi-closed S–CO2 cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 270(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Xu, Jinliang & Sun, Enhui & Li, Mingjia & Liu, Huan & Zhu, Bingguo, 2018. "Key issues and solution strategies for supercritical carbon dioxide coal fired power plant," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 157(C), pages 227-246.
    2. Wang, Shengpeng & Zhang, Yifan & Li, Hongzhi & Yao, Mingyu & Peng, Botao & Yan, Junjie, 2020. "Thermohydrodynamic analysis of the vertical gas wall and reheat gas wall in a 300 MW supercritical CO2 boiler," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    3. Xu, Cheng & Zhang, Qiang & Yang, Zhiping & Li, Xiaosa & Xu, Gang & Yang, Yongping, 2018. "An improved supercritical coal-fired power generation system incorporating a supplementary supercritical CO2 cycle," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 231(C), pages 1319-1329.
    4. Kunniyoor, Vijayaraj & Singh, Punit & Nadella, Karthik, 2020. "Value of closed-cycle gas turbines with design assessment," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    5. Muhammad, Hafiz Ali & Cho, Junhyun & Cho, Jongjae & Choi, Bongsu & Roh, Chulwoo & Ishfaq, Hafiz Ahmad & Lee, Gilbong & Shin, Hyungki & Baik, Young-Jin & Lee, Beomjoon, 2022. "Performance improvement of supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle at elevated heat sink temperatures," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(PD).
    6. Liu, Yaping & Wang, Ying & Huang, Diangui, 2019. "Supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle: A state-of-the-art review," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
    7. Zhang, Yifan & Li, Hongzhi & Han, Wanlong & Bai, Wengang & Yang, Yu & Yao, Mingyu & Wang, Yueming, 2018. "Improved design of supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle for coal-fired power plant," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 155(C), pages 1-14.
    8. Thanganadar, Dhinesh & Fornarelli, Francesco & Camporeale, Sergio & Asfand, Faisal & Patchigolla, Kumar, 2021. "Off-design and annual performance analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle with thermal storage for CSP application," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 282(PA).
    9. Gao, Lei & Cao, Tao & Hwang, Yunho & Radermacher, Reinhard, 2022. "Robustness analysis in supercritical CO2 power generation system configuration optimization," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
    10. Marchionni, Matteo & Bianchi, Giuseppe & Tassou, Savvas A., 2018. "Techno-economic assessment of Joule-Brayton cycle architectures for heat to power conversion from high-grade heat sources using CO2 in the supercritical state," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 1140-1152.
    11. Li, Hongzhi & Zhang, Yifan & Yao, Mingyu & Yang, Yu & Han, Wanlong & Bai, Wengang, 2019. "Design assessment of a 5 MW fossil-fired supercritical CO2 power cycle pilot loop," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 174(C), pages 792-804.
    12. Tong, Yongjing & Duan, Liqiang & Yang, Ming & Pang, Liping, 2022. "Design optimization of a new supercritical CO2 single reheat coal-fired power generation system," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(PB).
    13. Qin, Lei & Xie, Gongnan & Ma, Yuan & Li, Shulei, 2023. "Thermodynamic analysis and multi-objective optimization of a waste heat recovery system with a combined supercritical/transcritical CO2 cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 265(C).
    14. Liu, Xuejiao & Zhong, Wenqi & Li, Pingjiao & Xiang, Jun & Liu, Guoyao, 2019. "Design and performance analysis of coal-fired fluidized bed for supercritical CO2 power cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 176(C), pages 468-478.
    15. Liu, Zecheng & Zhong, Wenqi & Shao, Yingjuan & Liu, Xuejiao, 2020. "Exergy analysis of supercritical CO2 coal-fired circulating fluidized bed boiler system based on the combustion process," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
    16. Guo, Jia-Qi & Li, Ming-Jia & He, Ya-Ling & Xu, Jin-Liang, 2019. "A study of new method and comprehensive evaluation on the improved performance of solar power tower plant with the CO2-based mixture cycles," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 256(C).
    17. Park, Joo Hyun & Park, Hyun Sun & Kwon, Jin Gyu & Kim, Tae Ho & Kim, Moo Hwan, 2018. "Optimization and thermodynamic analysis of supercritical CO2 Brayton recompression cycle for various small modular reactors," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 520-535.
    18. Ma, Yuegeng & Liu, Ming & Yan, Junjie & Liu, Jiping, 2017. "Thermodynamic study of main compression intercooling effects on supercritical CO2 recompression Brayton cycle," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 140(P1), pages 746-756.
    19. Thanganadar, Dhinesh & Fornarelli, Francesco & Camporeale, Sergio & Asfand, Faisal & Gillard, Jonathon & Patchigolla, Kumar, 2022. "Thermo-economic analysis, optimisation and systematic integration of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle with sensible heat thermal energy storage for CSP application," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 238(PB).
    20. Olumayegun, Olumide & Wang, Meihong & Oko, Eni, 2019. "Thermodynamic performance evaluation of supercritical CO2 closed Brayton cycles for coal-fired power generation with solvent-based CO2 capture," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 1074-1088.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:210:y:2020:i:c:s036054422031584x. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.