NameCrespi, Francesco Maria
DepartmentIngeniería Energética
Knowledge areaMáquinas y Motores Térmicos
Professional categoryProfesor Sustituto Interino
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Off-design of a CO2-based mixture transcritical cycle for CSP applications: Analysis at part load and variable ambient temperature

Morosini, Ettore; Alfani, Dario; Salah, Salma I.; Abdeldayem, Abdelrahman; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Di Marcoberardino, Gioele; Manzolini, Giampaolo (Elsevier, 2024)
This work focuses on the off-design analysis of a simple recuperative transcritical power cycle working with the CO2 + ...
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Off-design of a CO₂-based mixture transcritical cycle for CSP applications: Analysis at part load and variable ambient temperature

Morosini, Ettore; Alfani, Dario; Salah, Salma I.; Abdeldayem, Abdelrahman; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Marcoberardino, Gioele Di; Manzolini, Giampaolo (Elsevier, 2024)
This work focuses on the off-design analysis of a simple recuperative transcritical power cycle working with the CO₂ + ...
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Assessment of Part-Load Operation Strategies of Supercritical Power Cycles Using Carbon Dioxide Mixtures in CSP Plants, Including Air-Cooled Condenser Optimisation

Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; García Rodríguez, Lourdes (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)
This manuscript, developed in the framework of SCARABEUS project, presents an assessment of the part-load performance of ...
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Axial turbine flow path design for concentrated solar power plants operating with CO2 blends

Salah, Salma I.; Crespi, Francesco Maria; White, Martin T.; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio; Paggini, Andrea; Ruggiero, Marco; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Sayma, Abdulnaser I. (Elsevier, 2023)
The utilisation of certain blends based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2), namely CO2/TiCl4, CO2/C6F6 and CO2/SO2, have been ...
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A methodology to design air-cooled condensers for supercritical power cycles using carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide mixtures

Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio (Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2023)
The SCARABEUS project investigates the use of CO₂–based mixtures as working fluid in power cycles for nextgeneration ...
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Integración de ciclos de potencia de dióxido de carbono supercrítico con oxicombustión de gas natural

López Muñoz, Giovanny Andrés; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Crespi, Francesco Maria (2023)
El cambio climático y calentamiento global son conceptos que nos competen a todos y con gran relevancia en el ámbito ...
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The potential of transcritical cycles based on CO mixtures: An exergy-based analysis

Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (Elsevier, 2022)
This paper focuses on the thermodynamic comparison between pure supercritical Carbon Dioxide and blended transcritical ...
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Life Cycle Assessment of Innovative Concentrated Solar Power Plants Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Mixtures

Liao, Xun; Chalumeau, Sophie; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Prieto Ríos, Cristina; López Román, Antón; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Martínez Sanz, Noelia; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Paggini, Andrea; David, Pierre-Luc; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (ASME. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022)
The SCARABEUS project, funded by the European Commission, is currently investigating the potential gains brought about by ...
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Preliminary investigation on the adoption of CO2-SO2 working mixtures in a transcritical Recompression cycle

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio (Elsevier, 2022)
This paper investigates the interest and potential of using working fluids based on Carbon and Sulphur Dioxide mixtures ...
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Adoption of CO2 blended with C6F6 as working fluid in CSP plants

Manzolini, Giampaolo; Binotti, Marco; Morosini, Ettore; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Marcoberardino, Gioele Di; Iora, Paolo; Invernizzi, Costante Mario; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (AIP Publishing, 2022)
The adoption of CO2-based mixtures as power block working fluid for CSP plant can turn supercritical CO2 cycles into ...
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Potential and challenges of the utilization of CO2-mixtures in supercritical power cycles of Concentrated Solar Power plants

Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio; Manzolini, Giampaolo; Invernizzi, Costante Mario; Di Marcoberardino, Gioele; White, Martin; David, Pierre-Luc; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (2022)
The potential of supercritical Carbon Dioxide power cycles to supersede subcritical steam turbine technology in Concentrated ...
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Thermodynamic Assessment and Optimisation of Supercritical and Transcritical Power Cycles Operating on CO2 Mixtures by Means of Artificial Neural Networks

Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (2022)
Closed supercritical and transcritical power cycles operating on Carbon Dioxide have proven to be a promising technology ...
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Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycles for Concentrated Solar Power Plants: A Possible Alternative for Solar Desalination

González-Almenara, Rafael; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel (MDPI, 2022)
This manuscript investigates the supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle employed in the power block of concentrated ...
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The potential of supercritical cycles based on CO₂ mixtures in Concentrated Solar Power plants: an exergy-based analysis

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Muñoz Blanco, Antonio; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (Technical University of Munich, 2021)
This paper, developed in the context of the SCARABEUS project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission, ...
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Influence of Working Fluid Composition on the Optimum Characteristics of Blended Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycles

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, Gonzalo; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Jiménez-Espadafor Aguilar, Francisco José (ASME, 2021)
The supercritical Carbon Dioxide power cycle technology has attracted growing interest from the scientific community, ...
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Thermal efficiency gains enabled by using CO2 mixtures in supercritical power cycles

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Rodríguez de Arriba, Pablo Enrique; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Ayub, Abubakr; Marcoberardino, Gioele Di; Invernizzi, Costante Mario; Sánchez Martínez, Gonzalo; Iora, Paolo; Bona, Daniele di; Binotti, Marco; Manzolini, Giampaolo; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás (Elsevier, 2021)
The present paper explores the utilisation of dopants to increase the critical temperature of Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) as a ...
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Thermal efficiency gains enabled by using supercritical CO2 mixtures in Concentrated Solar Power applications

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Rodriguez de Arriba, Pablo; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Ayub, Abubakr; Di Marcoberardino, Gioele; Invernizzi, Costante Mario; Sánchez Martínez, Gonzalo; Iora, Paolo; Di Bona, Daniele; Binotti, Marco; Manzolini, Giampaolo;  (2021)
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) power cycles have been proposed for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) applications as a ...
Final Degree Project
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Revisión del potencial de ciclos de dióxido de carbono supercrítico aplicados a centrales nucleares

Muñoz López, Carlos; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Crespi, Francesco Maria (2021)
Se ha realizado un estudio del diseño de sistemas principales y una simulación de Ciclos de potencia Brayton de CO2 ...
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Potential of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles to Reduce the Levelised Cost of Electricity of Contemporary Concentrated Solar Power Plants

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Martínez, Gonzalo S.; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel; Jiménez-Espadafor Aguilar, Francisco José (MDPI, 2020)
This paper provides an assessment of the expected Levelised Cost of Electricity enabled by Concentrated Solar Power plants ...
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Thermo-economic assessment of supercritical CO2 power cycles for concentrated solar power plants

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel (2020)
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Capital Cost Assessment of Concentrated Solar Power Plants Based on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Sánchez Lencero, Tomás Manuel; Sánchez Martínez, Gonzalo (2019)
Previous work by the authors has shown that broader analyses than those typically found in literature (in terms of operating ...
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Assessment of different control strategies to manage cloud-induced transients in central receiver systems using molten salts

Toscani, Andrea; Crespi, Francesco Maria; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Binotti, Marco; Manzolini, Giampaolo (American Institute of Physics Inc., 2018)
This paper presents an assessment of different control strategies to be applied in central receiver systems operating with ...
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Analysis of the Thermodynamic Potential of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycles: A Systematic Approach

Crespi, Francesco Maria; Gavagnin, Giacomo; Sánchez Martínez, David Tomás; Sánchez Martínez, Gonzalo (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 ...