Supercritical fluid recycle for surge control of CO2 centrifugal compressors

This paper presents computer-based design and analysis of control systems for centrifugal compressors when the operating fluid is supercritical CO2. It reports a non-linear dynamic model including a main forward compression line and two different configurations for the recycle antisurge line. Disturbance scenarios are proposed for testing the configurations and performance indicators are suggested to evaluate control performance and power consumption of the compression system. The paper demonstrates that compared to the hot recycle, the process configuration including a cold