A review of flow and heat transfer characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide under cooling conditions in energy and power systems

D Wu, M Wei, R Tian, S Zheng, J He - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO2) is widely used in many fields of energy and power
engineering, such as nuclear reactors, solar thermal power generation systems, and …

Optimal combination of converging and diverging minichannels in PCHE as precooler under diverse operating conditions of supercritical CO2

M Khoshvaght-Aliabadi, P Ghodrati, YT Kang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The performance of printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs) has been studied extensively
in supercritical CO 2 power cycles. However, no clear analysis has been conducted to …

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 …

A comprehensive review on numerical approaches to simulate heat transfer of turbulent supercritical CO2 flows

J Wang, Z Guan, H Gurgenci, Y Sun… - … Heat Transfer, Part B …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Extensive computational investigations have been performed to obtain more detailed
information about the peculiar phenomena of turbulent supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) …

Dual-effect evaluation of heat transfer deterioration of supercritical carbon dioxide in variable cross-section horizontal tubes under heating conditions

C Li, J Hao, X Wang, Z Ge, X Du - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heat transfer characteristics analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) in variable
cross-section tubes is critical for its promotion and application. This paper proposed three …

S–CO2 cooling heat transfer mechanism based on pseudo-condensation and turbulent field analysis

YH Fan, GH Tang, Q Sheng, XL Li, DL Yang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The supercritical-CO 2 (S–CO 2) cooler is one of the main components in S–CO 2
power system. This work aims at revealing the cooling mechanism of S–CO 2 under wide …

Improvement on numerical simulation of supercritical water flow in horizontal tubes: A buoyancy-tuned turbulent Prandtl number model

Z Hou, X Guo, Z Liang, K Yang, C Yang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
To improve the predictive accuracy of numerical simulations for supercritical water, the effect
of turbulent Prandtl number (Pr t) on supercritical water heat transfer was extensively studied …

Rapid 2-Dimensional prediction of supercritical CO2 heat transfer behaviors in inclined tubes based on deep learning

X Shi, Z Li, J Wang, X Chai, W Chen… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
At present, there is a dearth of empirical correlations for the prediction of the inclined
supercritical heat transfer. Considering the shortage of the rapid prediction method in the …

Numerical investigation on cooling heat transfer and flow characteristics of supercritical CO2 in spirally fluted tube at various inclination angles

Z Yu, L Tao, L Huang, D Wang, S Zhang, Q Yu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The convective flow and heat transfer characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide cooling
in various inclined spirally fluted tubes, which is used under high pressure conditions for …

Numerical study on flow structure and heat transfer of supercritical CO2 in tubes with different inclination angles

J Hou, Y Zhou, Y Yuan, S Huang - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
To reveal how buoyancy affects heat transfer of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2), the
flow and heat transfer characteristics of sCO 2 in circular tubes with an inner diameter of 19 …