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A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

8 September, 2022/in News /by jose

The CO2OLHEAT Project coordinated by ETN Global aims to demonstrate (at TRL7) the operation of a 2 MW Waste-Heat-to-power (WH2P) skid based on a 2MW-sCO2 cycle, able to efficiently valorize local waste heat at a significant temperature of 400°C in the CEMEX cement manufacturing plant in Prachovice (CZ). CO2OLHEAT has organized a joint virtual […]

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

17 July, 2022/in Conference and journal papers /by jose

A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

8 September, 2022/in News /by jose

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

17 July, 2022/in Conference and journal papers /by jose

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A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

8 September, 2022/in News /by jose

CO2OLHEAT has organized a joint virtual dissemination event with a fabulous portfolio of ongoing national and international R&D projects focused on different aspects of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide technologies for power generation. SCARABEUS will be represented by Prof. David Sánchez, dissemination coordinator.

Do not miss this opportunity to be acquainted with the latest activities in this exciting topic, even more so given the current landscape of the energy sector and the associated need to push the development of new power generation technologies ensuring sustainability and security of supply.

The event will take place on September 22^nd, 14.00 – 16.00 CEST. Follow this link to registration: https://lnkd.in/dTvVAKrD

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

17 July, 2022/in Conference and journal papers /by jose

City, University of London and Baker Hughes have been working on the turbomachinery design for the SCARABEUS project. A 130 MW axial turbine is designed to produce a net power output from the cycle of ~100 MWe. The design process starts by identifying the aerodynamic and mechanical design constraints based on industrial and academic experience, while these constraints are applied to produce the preliminary design using the available loss correlations. A further design assessment is conducted using numerical CFD/FEA simulations to optimise the turbine blades for performance maximisation and to ensure a safe and reliable operation.

This work was presented at the ASME conference held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), June 13-17, by Abdelrahman Abdeldayem, from City, University of London on behalf of the team.

The paper is available in Open Access on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055232

Abstract

Within this study, the blade shape of a large-scale axial turbine operating with sCO₂ blended with dopants is optimized using an integrated aerodynamic-structural three-dimensional (3D) numerical model, whereby the optimization aims at maximizing the aerodynamic efficiency whilst meeting a set of stress constraints to ensure safe operation. Specifically, three candidate mixtures are considered, namely, CO₂ blended with titanium tetrachloride (TiCl₄), hexafluorobenzene (C₆F₆), or sulfur dioxide (SO₂), where the selected blends and boundary conditions are defined by the EU project, SCARABEUS. A single passage axial turbine numerical model is setup and applied to the first stage of a large-scale multistage axial turbine design. The aerodynamic performance is simulated using a 3D steady-state viscous computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model while the blade stress distribution is obtained from a static structural finite element analysis simulation (FEA). A genetic algorithm is used to optimize parameters defining the blade angle and thickness distributions along the chord line while a surrogate model is used to provide fast and reliable model predictions during optimization using a genetic aggregation response surface. The uncertainty of the surrogate model, represented by the difference between the surrogate model results and the CFD/FEA model results, is evaluated using a set of verification points and is found to be less than 0.3% for aerodynamic efficiency and 1% for both the mass-flow rate and the maximum equivalent stresses. The comparison between the final optimized blade cross section has shown some common trends in optimizing the blade design by decreasing the stator and rotor trailing edge thickness, increasing the stator thickness near the trailing edge, and decreasing the rotor thickness near the trailing edge and decreasing the rotor outlet angle. Further investigations of the loss breakdown of the optimized and reference blade designs are presented to highlight the role of the optimization process in reducing aerodynamic losses. It has been noted that the performance improvement achieved through shape optimization is mainly due to decreasing the endwall losses with both the stator and rotor passages.

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A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

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A joint virtual dissemination event organized by CO2OLHEAT will be joined by SCARABEUS

A new joint paper between City, University of London (CUL) and Baker Hughes (BH) discussing the blade shape optimisation of the SCARABEUS turbine operating with sCO2-SO2 mixture

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