Brayton Cycle Optimization

Author(s):  
Sushanta K. Mitra ◽  
Achintya Mukhopadhaya

The Brayton Cycle is the ideal cycle for simple gas turbine applications. The heat transfer process in such a cycle is of practical importance as far as power output is considered. The present work focusses on the power output from an ideally reversible Brayton cycle and criteria for optimum power based on its operating parameters like the specific heat of hot and cold fluids, working fluid and heater inlet temperature is discussed here.

Author(s):  
Aleksey Bal'chugov ◽  
Mihail Vazhenin ◽  
Borislav Kustov

It has been experimentally established that the ideal displacement model adequately describes the heat transfer process in a horizontal heat exchange pipe cooled by atmospheric air


Author(s):  
O S Sogut ◽  
A Durmayaz

An optimal performance analysis of a parabolic-trough direct-steam-generation solar-driven Rankine cycle power plant at maximum power (MP) and under maximum power density (MPD) conditions is performed numerically to investigate the effects of heat loss from the heat source and working fluid. In this study, the ideal Rankine cycle of the solar-driven power plant is modified into an equivalent Carnot-like cycle with a finite-rate heat transfer. The main assumptions of this study include that: (a) the parabolic collector is the thermal reservoir at a high temperature, (b) the heat transfer process between the collector and the working fluid is through either radiation and convection simultaneously or radiation only, and (c) the heat transfer process from the working fluid to the low-temperature thermal reservoir is convection dominated. Comprehensive discussions on the effect of heat loss during the heat transfer process from the hot thermal reservoir to the working fluid in the parabolic-trough solar collector are provided. The major results of this study can be summarized as follows: (a) the working fluid temperature at the hot-side heat exchanger decreases remarkably whereas the working fluid temperature at the cold-side heat exchanger does not show any significant change with increasing heat loss, (b) the MP, MPD, and thermal efficiencies decrease with increasing heat loss, and (c) the effect of heat loss on the decrease of thermal efficiency increases when convection is the dominant heat transfer mode at the hot-side heat exchanger.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 3212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenqi Tang ◽  
Lingen Chen ◽  
Huijun Feng ◽  
Wenhua Wang ◽  
Yanlin Ge

A modified closed binary Brayton cycle model with variable isothermal pressure drop ratios is established by using finite time thermodynamics in this paper. A topping cycle, a bottoming cycle, two isothermal heating processes and variable-temperature reservoirs are included in the new model. The topping cycle is composed of a compressor, a regular combustion chamber, a converging combustion chamber, a turbine and a precooler. The bottoming cycle is composed of a compressor, an ordinary regenerator, an isothermal regenerator, a turbine and a precooler. The heat conductance distributions among the six heat exchangers are optimized with dimensionless power output as optimization objective. The results show that the double maximum dimensionless power output increases first and then tends to be unchanged while the inlet temperature ratios of the regular combustion chamber and the converging combustion chamber increase. There also exist optimal thermal capacitance rate matchings among the working fluid and heat reservoirs, leading to the optimal maximum dimensionless power output.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2208
Author(s):  
Sen Li ◽  
Jinxing Guo ◽  
Xin Lv ◽  
Teng Deng ◽  
Bo Cao ◽  
...  

In the fast filling process, in order to control the temperature of the vehicle-mounted storage tank not to exceed the upper limit of 85 °C, it is an effective method to add a hydrogen pre-cooling system upstream of the hydrogenation machine. In this paper, Fluent is used to simulate the heat transfer process of high-pressure hydrogen in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger and the phase change process of refrigerant R23. The accuracy of the model is proven by a comparison with the data in the references. Using this model, the temperature field and gas volume fraction in the heat transfer process are obtained, which is helpful to analyze the heat transfer mechanism. At the same time, the influence of hydrogen inlet temperature, hydrogen inlet pressure, and refrigerant flow rate on the refrigeration performance was studied. The current work shows that the model can be used to determine the best working parameters in the pre-cooling process and reduce the operating cost of the hydrogen refueling station.


2020 ◽  
Vol 786 (11) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
A.M. IBRAGIMOV ◽  
◽  
L.Yu. GNEDINA ◽  

This work is part of a series of articles under the general title The structural design of the blast furnace wall from efficient materials [1–3]. In part 1, Problem statement and calculation prerequisites, typical multilayer enclosing structures of a blast furnace are considered. The layers that make up these structures are described. The main attention is paid to the lining layer. The process of iron smelting and temperature conditions in the characteristic layers of the internal environment of the furnace is briefly described. Based on the theory of A.V. Lykov, the initial equations describing the interrelated transfer of heat and mass in a solid are analyzed in relation to the task – an adequate description of the processes for the purpose of further rational design of the multilayer enclosing structure of the blast furnace. A priori the enclosing structure is considered from a mathematical point of view as the unlimited plate. In part 2, Solving boundary value problems of heat transfer, boundary value problems of heat transfer in individual layers of a structure with different boundary conditions are considered, their solutions, which are basic when developing a mathematical model of a non-stationary heat transfer process in a multi-layer enclosing structure, are given. Part 3 presents a mathematical model of the heat transfer process in the enclosing structure and an algorithm for its implementation. The proposed mathematical model makes it possible to solve a large number of problems. Part 4 presents a number of examples of calculating the heat transfer process in a multilayer blast furnace enclosing structure. The results obtained correlate with the results obtained by other authors, this makes it possible to conclude that the new mathematical model is suitable for solving the problem of rational design of the enclosing structure, as well as to simulate situations that occur at any time interval of operation of the blast furnace enclosure.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. X. Wang ◽  
H. Li ◽  
X. F. Peng ◽  
L. X. Yang

The development of a numerical model for analyzing the effect of the nano-particles’ Brownian motion on the heat transfer is described. By using the Maxwell velocity distribution relations to calculate the most possible velocity of fluid molecules at certain temperature gradient location around the nano-particle, the interaction between fluid molecules and one single nano-particle is analyzed and calculated. Based on this, a syntonic system is proposed and the coupled effect that Brownian motion of nano-particles has on fluid molecules is simulated. This is used to formulate a reasonable analytic method, facilitating laboratory study. The results provide the essential features of the heat transfer process, contributed by micro-convection to be considered.


2011 ◽  
Vol 393-395 ◽  
pp. 412-415
Author(s):  
Jian Hua Zhong ◽  
Li Ming Jiang ◽  
Kai Feng

In this article, finned copper tube used in the central air conditioning was acted as the discussed object. According to the combination with actual processing and theoretical calculations, Five finned tube was selected with typical structural parameters, and established their entity model using Pro/E, then the heat transfer process of finned tube was simulated through the ANSYS, the effect of the fin height, fin thickness and other structure parameters to the heat transfer enhancement of finned tube was researched. Meantime the efficiency of the heat transfer under different convection heat transfer coefficient was also studied.


2011 ◽  
Vol 228-229 ◽  
pp. 676-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Tian ◽  
Xun Liang Liu ◽  
Zhi Wen

A three-dimensional mathematic model is developed for a 100kw single-end recuperative radiant tube and the simulation is performed with the CFD software FLUENT. Also it is used to investigate the effect of distance between combustion chamber exit and inner tube on heat transfer process. The results suggest that the peak value of combustion flame temperature drops along with the increasing of distance, which leads to low NOX discharging. Also radiant tube surface bulk temperature decreases, which causes radiant tube heating performance losses.


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