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DRIVEN BY SUPERCRITICAL
CARBON DIOXIDE
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Concentrated
Solar Thermal
The Technology:
Plant technology can be used
to run a supercritical CO2
driven power cycle which is
expected to increase efficiency
and
applicability
of
solar
power.
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Power Cycle:
Compared to organic and steam-based
Rankine cycle systems, s-CO2 Brayton
cycle can achieve high efficiencies over
a wide temperature range of heat
sources with compact components
resulting in a smaller system footprint,
lower capital and operating costs.
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Super Critical
CO2 Power
Cycle
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Steam
turbine
usually has
10-15 rotor
stages where
as in S-Co2
turbine it is 45 rotor stage
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TAC Module
(source: Sandia
Supercritical CO2
Cycle Loop Test)
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State of Art
NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
has started a 10 MW Supercritical-CO2 Turbine
Project with the support from Echogen Power
Systems, Dresser-Rand, Abengoa Solar, Sandia
National Laboratories, the University of
Wisconsin, Barber-Nichols Inc., and the Electric
Power Research Institute. The project is
expected to be completed by 2019.
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State of Art
Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory are involved
with Toshiba, Echogen, Dresser Rand, GE,
Barber-Nichols in working out the most
efficient S-CO2 power cycles. Moreover Sandia
National Lab is also focussing on system and
metallurgical studies for the heat exchangers
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