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Potential of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles to Reduce the Levelised Cost of Electricity of Contemporary Concentrated Solar Power Plants
(MDPI, 2020-07)
This paper provides an assessment of the expected Levelised Cost of Electricity enabled by Concentrated Solar Power plants based on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) technology. A global approach is presented, relying ...
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Techno-economic study of Power-to-Power renewable energy storage based on the smart integration of battery, hydrogen, and micro gas turbine technologies
(Elsevier, 2023-04-17)
This paper deals with the integration of a Power-to-Power Energy Storage System (P2P-ESS) based on a hydrogen driven micro gas turbine (mGT) for an off-grid application with a continuous demand of 30 kWe for three European ...
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Thermal efficiency gains enabled by using supercritical CO2 mixtures in Concentrated Solar Power applications
(2021-03-30)
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) power cycles have been proposed for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) applications as a means to increase the performance and reduce the cost of state-of-the-art CSP systems. Nevertheless, ...
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Preliminary investigation on the adoption of CO2-SO2 working mixtures in a transcritical Recompression cycle
(Elsevier, 2022-07)
This paper investigates the interest and potential of using working fluids based on Carbon and Sulphur Dioxide mixtures (CO2-SO2) in a transcritical Recompression cycle. In order to assess the actual thermodynamic potential ...
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Mechanical analysis of Genoa 03 stirling engine
(International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems SDEWES, 2018)
Due to the new technologies development based on renewable sources of energy, in recent years Stirling engines have become very important in the energetic sector. Many of them do not allow the use of fluid lubricants and, ...
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Application of the theory of constraints to unveil the root causes of the limited market penetration of micro gas turbine systems
(Elsevier, 2023-09)
Micro Gas Turbines are small devices for on-site power and heat generation. Their high maintainability and fuel flexibility make them a suitable technology for transitioning to a greener economy. However, their commercialisation ...
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Axial turbine flow path design for concentrated solar power plants operating with CO2 blends
(Elsevier, 2023-04-26)
The utilisation of certain blends based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2), namely CO2/TiCl4, CO2/C6F6 and CO2/SO2, have been found to be promising for enhancing the performance of power cycles for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) ...
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Analysis of the Thermodynamic Potential of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycles: A Systematic Approach
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018)
After the renewed interest in supercritical carbon dioxide cycles, a large number of cycle layouts have been proposed in literature. These works, which are essentially theoretical, consider different operating conditions ...
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Market Opportunities of Water Treatments Powered by Solar Micro Gas Turbines: Chile and Ecuador Case Studies
(MDPI, 2022-03)
Throughout the last decades the developments on desalination field have been focused on energy consumption and costs reduction. However, water recovery and brine disposal are becoming a matter of concern to desalination ...
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Innovative Desalination System Driven by a Solar Micro Gas Turbine for Off-Grid Applications
(Elsevier, 2024-01)
Past work by the authors has suggested that Solar micro Gas Turbines (SmGTs) can be used cost-effectively to produce electric power and heat for freshwater production through desalination, mainly in off-grid locations. ...