Publications associées à Turbine à gaz à cycle fermé

Experimental investigation and analysis of sequential jet impingement concepts for enhanced turbine cooling

With the future decarbonization of the electricity production, gas turbines will be an important tool for the stabilization of the electricity grid by meeting the peak of energy demand using zero-carbon fuels like synthetic gas and hydrogen. The combustion ...

EPFL2021

The EQL0D fuel cycle procedure and its application to the transition to equilibrium of selected molten salt reactor designs

Boris Aviv Hombourger, Andreas Pautz, Jiri Krepel

In recent years, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), one of the Generation IV concepts, have noticeably gained in interest. Several molten salt reactor types use fuel in liquid form, bringing various advantages, notably in terms of fuel cycle. However, simulating ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Technological and physics assessments on heating and current drive systems for DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, Laurie Porte, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli, Giovanni Tardini

The physics requirements of the heating and current (H&CD) systems in a Demonstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) are often beyond the actual level of design maturity and technology readiness required. The recent EU fusion roadmap advocates a pragmatic appro ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Thermo-economic optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Gas Turbine system fuelled with gasified lignocellulosic biomass

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Laurence Tock, Priscilla Caliandro

Within the context of sustainable energy supply and CO2 emissions reduction a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) - Gas Turbine hybrid system, fuelled with gasified woody biomass for medium scale applications (8MWth,BM of dry biomass) is studied in detail. The sy ...

2013

Coupled 3-D Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulics Optimization Study For Improving The Response Of A 3600 Mw(Thermal) Sfr Core To An Unprotected Loss-Of-Flow Accident

Rakesh Chawla, Aurélia Chenu, Konstantin Mikityuk, Jiri Krepel, Kaichao Sun

The sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), as a fast neutron spectrum system, is characterized by several performance advantages. In particular, the long-term operation of an SFR core in a closed fuel cycle will lead to an equilibrium state, where both reactivi ...

Amer Nuclear Soc2013

Transcritical or supercritical CO2 cycles using both low- and high-temperature heat sources

Daniel Favrat

In CO2 cycles with high-temperature heat sources that are used in applications such as nuclear power, concentrated solar power, and combustion, partial condensation transcritical CO2 (T-CO2) cycles or recompression supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) cycles are cons ...

2012

New microwave sensing system for blade tip clearance measurement in gas turbines

Anja Skrivervik, Marc Hafner, Maddalena Violetti

Real-time clearance control in turbine engines allows improving their efficiency and safety, by enabling prognostics and optimized condition-based maintenance in the turbine hot section. This paper presents a novel 24 GHz microwave sensing system for real- ...

Ieee2012

Co-production of Hydrogen and Electricity from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Process Design and Thermo-economic Optimization

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

The thermochemical production of hydrogen from lignocellulosic biomass is systematically analyzed by developing environomic models combining thermodynamics with economic analysis, process integration techniques and optimization strategies for the conceptua ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011

Application of Photoluminescent Measurement Techniques for Quantitative Assessment of Turbine Film Cooling

Magnus Jonsson

Reduction of the specific fuel consumption of gas turbines can be achieved by maximizing the turbine inlet temperature. However, this requires a detailed understanding of the cooling performance in order to ensure safe and economical operation of the engin ...

EPFL2010

Thermo-economic Optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Gas Turbine Hybrid System

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Nordahl Autissier, Francesca Palazzi

Large scale power production benefits from the high efficiency of gas-steam combined cycles. In the lower power range, fuel cells are a good candidate to combine with gas turbines. Such systems can achieve efficiencies exceeding 60%. High temperature Solid ...

2007

Thermo economic analysis for the optimal conceptual design of biomass gasification energy conversion systems

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, David Brown

This study addresses the thermo economic assessment of a biomass gasification, gas cleaning and energy conversion process, with particular attention given to tar control and the communication of the process design rationale. Product distributions were esti ...

2006

Environomic modeling and multi-objective optimisation of integrated energy systems for power and cogeneration

Hongtao Li

Current and future dynamics, of environmental legislations and trading market, of the fuel and electricity prices due to the market liberalization or resource shortages, and of the innovations of power/cogeneration technologies, impose great challenges on ...

EPFL2006

Advanced Power Plant Design Methodology using Process Integration and Multi-Objective Thermo-Economic Optimisation

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Raffaele Bolliger

Thermo-economic modelling techniques are well known techniques to optimise power plant designs. These methods are usually based on the definition of a superstructure that includes the major options of the design. If this approach has proved to be appropria ...

2005

Thermo-economic Optimization of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Gas Turbine Hybrid System

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Nordahl Autissier, Francesca Palazzi

Background: The electricity production market benefits from combined cycles with their high efficiency. In the lower power range, Fuel Cells are a good candidate to combine with gas turbines. Such systems can achieve efficiencies of 60% and more. High tem ...

2005