I was surprised to hear from GE that a CO2 working fluid power plant using turbine waste heat is a thing nowadays. They have a contractor, Echogen, who provides that part.
In ships, when fuel costs just keep on rising, that starts making sense. (There are other reasons why it might not be good though.) On land power plants, it might make natural gas electricity more competitive against coal with this better efficiency.
Though I don't see the keyword supercritical on the Echogen site yet...
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I was surprised to hear from GE that a CO2 working fluid power plant using turbine waste heat is a thing nowadays. They have a contractor, Echogen, who provides that part.
http://www.cospp.com/articles/print/volume-14/issue-01/featu...
http://www.echogen.com/documents/why-sco2-can-displace-steam...
In ships, when fuel costs just keep on rising, that starts making sense. (There are other reasons why it might not be good though.) On land power plants, it might make natural gas electricity more competitive against coal with this better efficiency.
Though I don't see the keyword supercritical on the Echogen site yet...
Oh neat, I didn't know about that either.