Optimization Of Supercritical Co2 Brayton Cycle For Simple Cycle Gas Turbines Exhaust Heat Recovery Using Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

For the application of waste heat recovery (WHR), supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) Brayton power cycles offer significant suitable advantages such as compactness, low capital cost, and applicability to a broad range of heat source temperatures. The current study is focused on thermodynamic modeling and optimization of recuperated (RC) and recuperated recompression (RRC) configurations of S-CO2 Brayton cycles for exhaust heat recovery from a next generation heavy duty simple cycle gas turbine using genetic algorithm (GA). This nongradient based algorithm yields a simultaneous optimization of key S-CO2 Brayton cycle decision variables such as turbine inlet temperature, pinch point temperature difference, compressor pressure ratio, and mass flow rate of CO2. The main goal of the optimization is to maximize power out of the exhaust stream which makes it single objective optimization. The optimization is based on thermodynamic analysis with suitable practical assumptions which can be varied according to the need of user. The optimal cycle design points are presented for both RC and RRC configurations and comparison of net power output is established for WHR. For the chosen exhaust gas mass flow rate, RRC cycle yields more power output than RC cycle. The main conclusion drawn from the current study is that the choice of best cycle for WHR actually depends heavily on mass flow rate of the exhaust gas. Further, the economic analysis of the more power producing RRC cycle is performed and cost comparison between the optimized RRC cycle and steam Rankine bottoming cycle is presented.

Publication Date

7-1-2018

Publication Title

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volume

140

Issue

7

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039446

Socpus ID

85051365306 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85051365306

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