Preliminary investigation of the influence of equations of state on the performance of CO2 + C6F6 as innovative working fluid in transcritical cycles

G. Di Marcoberardino, E. Morosini and G. Manzolini

Energy, 2022, vol. 238, issue PB

Abstract: sCO2 power cycle is the most investigated and most promising technology for replacing conventional steam cycle in CSP plants. Nevertheless, the efficiency of sCO2 power cycle is strongly penalized by high ambient temperatures which are typical of favourable CSP locations. This paper focuses on a new working fluid for power cycles which consists of CO2 blended with C6F6. The addition of C6F6 increases the fluid critical temperature allowing for a condensing cycle for ambient temperatures up to 45 °C. The calculated gross mechanical efficiency of the innovative cycle is around 42% when adopting a typical Peng Robinson equation of state with van der Waals mixing rules for a maximum operating temperature of 550 °C and a minimum cycle temperature of 51 °C. This performance varies just of ±0.1% if the prediction of the binary interaction parameter of the Peng Robinson is over- or under-estimated by 50%, but more significantly if other equations of states are adopted (up to 1% points). Moreover, a detailed analysis on the operating conditions of the cycle components highlighted that components design is affected by the adopted EoS. A sensitivity analysis is then performed to identify where the largest differences in predicting the efficiency of the cycle occur.

Keywords: CO2-Blends; Equation of state; Hexafluorobenzene; Thermodynamic assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121815

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