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Thermodynamic Analysis And Optimization Of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles, Mahmood Mohagheghi
Thermodynamic Analysis And Optimization Of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles, Mahmood Mohagheghi
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The power generation industry is facing new challenging issues regarding accelerating growth of electricity demand, fuel cost and environmental pollution. These challenges accompanied by concerns of energy resources becoming scarce necessitate searching for sustainable and economically competitive solutions to supply the future electricity demand. To this end, supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycles present great promise particularly in high temperature concentrated solar power (CSP) and waste heat recovery (WHR) applications. With this regard, this dissertation is intended to perform thorough thermodynamic analyses and optimization of S-CO2 Brayton cycles for both of these applications. A modeling tool has been developed, which …