Potential prospects of supercritical CO2 power cycles for commercialisation: Applicability, research status, and advancement

MM Ehsan, M Awais, S Lee, S Salehin, Z Guan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The excellent thermo-physical and chemical properties of CO 2 suggest its employment as a
working fluid in power sectors owing to several benefits over the steam cycle. The present …

[HTML][HTML] Heat transfer behaviors of some supercritical fluids: A review

XIE Gongnan, XU Xiaoxiao, LEI Xianliang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Supercritical fluids (eg, hydrocarbon fuels, water, carbon dioxide, and organic working
medium, etc) have been recognized as working media to improve thermal efficiencies in …

Buoyancy effects on convective heat transfer of supercritical CO2 and thermal stress in parabolic trough receivers under non-uniform solar flux distribution

K Wang, ZD Zhang, XY Zhang, CH Min - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The buoyancy influenced heat transfer characteristics of S-CO 2 have been investigated
widely in previous studies, but limited to the conditions with constant wall temperature or …

Experimental and numerical comparison of the heat transfer behaviors and buoyancy effects of supercritical CO2 in various heating tubes

S Zhang, X Xu, C Liu, X Liu, Z Ru, C Dang - International Journal of Heat …, 2020 - Elsevier
For the different flow orientations and physical models, the influence of buoyancy effect on
flow characteristics exist essential difference, the heat transfer behaviors change …

A review on application and heat transfer enhancement of supercritical CO2 in low-grade heat conversion

S Zhang, X Xu, C Liu, C Dang - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Trans-critical CO 2 Rankine system is a new technology for low-grade heat utilization which
has high energy conversion efficiency and exergo-economic efficiency. The gas heater is …

Buoyancy effects on coupled heat transfer of supercritical pressure CO2 in horizontal semicircular channels

H Zhang, J Guo, X Huai, X Cui, K Cheng - International Journal of Heat and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The buoyancy has great influence on the convective heat transfer of supercritical pressure
fluids whose thermal properties change drastically near the pseudocritical point. Thus …

Heat transfer of supercritical carbon dioxide in a tube-in-tube heat exchanger-a CFD study

W Li, Z Yu, Y Wang, Y Li - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
For better design and optimization of the heat exchanger (HX), forced convective heat
transfer and flow characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO2) in a water-cooled …

Numerical investigation on turbulent mixed convective heat transfer of CO2 in a horizontal miniature tube at supercritical pressure

H Pu, N Li, M Dong, Y Shang, H Du, C Hou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixed convective heat transfer behaviors of turbulent supercritical CO 2 (SCO 2) flowing in a
horizontal miniature tube (di= 2 mm) have been investigated using an in-house code. The …

Flow regimes and heat transfer mechanisms affecting supercritical transition in microchannels

TA Whitaker, JW Cochran, JD Hochhalter… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) exhibits unique thermophysical and transport
properties, which have the potential to enhance a wide range of thermal systems. Significant …

Experimental study on the heat transfer characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide in spiral tube with high pitch to spiral diameter ratio

J Chen, H Chen, R Zhao, JL Song, YL Nian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Spiral tubes are compact and extremely heat-transfer-efficient that are suited for supercritical
carbon dioxide (S-CO 2) power cycles. Some existing experiments of S-CO 2 heating in …