The startup process is the crucial transition phase of supercritical carbon-dioxide Brayton cycle, so it essential to focus on and investigate transient performance for system’s safety stability. pressure in buffer tank approaches upper limit with different schemes during joint commissioning compressor heater a MWe-scale experiment system, while maximum temperature 309 °C. Hence, dynamic simula...

Excessive heat losses and water consumption in cooling units are significant constraints restricting the application circumstances performances for SCO2 Brayton cycle, exchange capacity precooler (PRC) is typically 1.5 times that of power generation. Therefore, this research offers a high-integrated combined power/cooling system which two waste exchangers (WHEs) rectifier (RET) used instead PRC...

Performance expectations of closed-Brayton-cycle heat exchangers to be used in 100-kWe nuclear space power systems were forecast. Proposed cycle state points for a system supporting a mission to three of Jupiter’s moons required effectiveness values for the heat-source exchanger, recuperator and rejection exchanger (gas cooler) of 0.98, 0.95, and 0.97, respectively. Performance parameters such ...

In this paper, a simple and general hierarchical control framework is proposed and validated through the interconnection of the Joule-Thompson and the Brayton cycle stages of a cryogenic refrigerator. The proposed framework enables to handle the case of destabilizing interconnections through state and/or control signals (which is the case of the cryogenic refrigerator example). Moreover, it off...