Owing to its excellent physical properties, CO 2 has been extensively used as a working
fluid in power cycle and refrigeration cycle. To improve energy conversion efficiency, various …

Power tower concentrating solar plants with thermal energy storage will play a key role in
the transition to a low carbon scenario, thanks to be a dispatchable renewable energy …

The recompression supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle is one of the most promising
candidate power blocks for the solar power tower plant. As an important component, the …

Nuclear energy is a kind of stable, controllable and cleaner energy without massive
discharge of pollutant. A comprehensive investigation on the design and off-design …

Abstract The supercritical CO 2 (S-CO 2) Brayton cycle with high temperature thermal
energy storage is proposed to efficiently utilize solar thermal energy. A molten halide salt …

The cooling of scramjet is a critical issue for the hypersonic vehicle, but the conventional
regenerative cooling system cannot satisfy the cooling requirement and the fuel …

For a coal fired power plant, a combined supercritical CO 2 cycle (S-CO 2) absorbs flue gas
energy over entire temperature range. Because top/bottom cycles absorb high and …

Ever since the inception of the industrial revolution, artificial acceleration of swift economic
development has contributed to the continuous and ever-increasing demand for energy …

Solar thermal power plants coupled to supercritical CO 2 cycles seems to be a way to
increase the global solar-to-electric efficiency. For that, the concentrating solar technology …

Tungsten is the favoured armour material for plasma facing components for future fusion
reactors, but studies examining the use of tungsten or other refractory metals in the …