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Fundamental Characteristics Of Supercritical Co2 Combustion, Raghu Veera Manikantachari Kancherla

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The direct-fired supercritical CO2 (sCO2) cycle is conceptually superior to many of the trending energy production technologies due to their remarkably promising efficiency, environmental friendliness and cost. The accurate simulation of this combustion is very important because the operating conditions are very challenging to its experimentation. Hence, the current work focuses on identifying various thermal, transport, chemical kinetic models, investigating various fundamental characteristics and verifying the validity of important underlying modeling assumptions in focus to supercritical CO2 combustion. In the current work, various thermal and transport property models are identified based on accuracy, computational cost and ease of implementation for …