Application of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles for Thermal Energy Storage
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Thermal Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 4534
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Interests: renewable energy; concentrating solar power; advanced energy systems; energy storage; power-to-X; thermoeconomics
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Interests: energy; renewable energy; energy storage; thermal energy storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High efficiency, flexibility, and competitive capital costs make supercritical CO2 (sCO2) systems a promising technology for renewable power generation in a low carbon energy scenario. Recently, innovative supercritical systems have been studied showing promising superior techno-economic features than steam cycles or ORC, particularly at high temperatures. Currently, our first experimental experiences are aiming to explore sCO2 Brayton power plants and their coupling with power systems with low carbon heat sources, such as waste heat, concentrated solar energy, and geothermal.
Application of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles for Thermal Energy Storage is a Special Issue in Applied Sciences for those who would like to publish original papers about technologies, models, and methodologies that could strengthen sCO2 power cycles development. This Special Issue aims at presenting important results of work in sCO2 advanced energy systems and their application for energy storage purpose. Works can be applied research, development of new procedures, energy systems (at cycle innovation and components level), original application of existing knowledge, or new design and modelling approaches.
Papers in the relevant area of sCO2 power cycles, including, but not limited to, the following, are invited:
- sCO2 cycles for power production and energy storage solutions: steady state and dynamic modelling approach;
- sCO2 cycles for power production and energy storage solutions: testing experiences;
- sCO2 turbomachinery: design, modelling, and prototyping;
- sCO2 heat exchangers: design, modelling, and prototyping;
- Innovative sCO2-based cycles for storage applications integrated with TES;
- Control, operation, and planning of sCO2 power plants.
Dr. Rafael Guédez
Dr. Silvia Trevisan
Dr. Stefano Barberis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2)
- sCO2 power cycle
- thermal energy storage
- waste heat recovery
- heat exchangers
- turbomachinery
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