TY - JOUR
T1 - THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF A REACTIVE PARTICLE-TO-SCO2 HEAT EXCHANGER FOR RECOVERING STORED THERMOCHEMICAL ENERGY
AU - Siefering, Bryan J.
AU - Umer, Muhammad
AU - Stechel, Ellen B.
AU - Fronk, Brian M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE0008991. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government. We also gratefully acknowledge Drs. Ivan Ermanoski, Ryan Milcarek, and Arindam Dasgupta and the rest of the project team for helpful conversations. Full Legal Disclaimer: This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of off-design supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle operation on the thermodynamic performance of a heat exchanger/chemical reactor for transferring stored energy from hot, reduced, metal oxide particles into the power cycle. The device, termed an Energy Recovery Reactor (ERR), feeds gravity-driven particles through a bank of zigzag, finned, serpentine tubes containing sCO2 flowing in counterflow to the particles. Preheated air introduced at the bottom of the reactor flows through the zig-zag channels also in counterflow with the particles and parallel flow with the sCO2. The air supplies oxygen (O2) as the reactant to drive exothermic re-oxidation of particles. The air also functions as a heat transfer medium between the energized particles and sCO2. In this study we develop a steady-state 1-D thermodynamic model of the ERR system. By defining controllable inputs such as inlet temperatures and flow rates of particles, air, and sCO2, the remaining state points are calculated based on mass and energy balances. With set flow rates of particles, adjusting the sCO2 cycle operating conditions (e.g., inlet temperature, flow rate, etc.) demonstrate how the performance of the ERR will change during off-design operation. Increasing the inlet temperature of the sCO2 while maintaining the required outlet temperature results in a smaller temperature lift and decreases the heat duty of the system as a whole. When the system runs with a constant particle flow rate, the total amount of chemical heat available is constrained based on the redox reaction. Therefore, adjusting the heat transfer to the sCO2 based on changes to the operating conditions results in changes to the recovery effectiveness and the ratio of sensible to chemical heat released by the particles. This model outputs the steady state operating conditions of the three domains within the reactor at various off-design conditions that are input to an existing segmented heat transfer model to calculate the temperature profiles and local heat transfer performance, which will be verified experimentally in future work.
AB - The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of off-design supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle operation on the thermodynamic performance of a heat exchanger/chemical reactor for transferring stored energy from hot, reduced, metal oxide particles into the power cycle. The device, termed an Energy Recovery Reactor (ERR), feeds gravity-driven particles through a bank of zigzag, finned, serpentine tubes containing sCO2 flowing in counterflow to the particles. Preheated air introduced at the bottom of the reactor flows through the zig-zag channels also in counterflow with the particles and parallel flow with the sCO2. The air supplies oxygen (O2) as the reactant to drive exothermic re-oxidation of particles. The air also functions as a heat transfer medium between the energized particles and sCO2. In this study we develop a steady-state 1-D thermodynamic model of the ERR system. By defining controllable inputs such as inlet temperatures and flow rates of particles, air, and sCO2, the remaining state points are calculated based on mass and energy balances. With set flow rates of particles, adjusting the sCO2 cycle operating conditions (e.g., inlet temperature, flow rate, etc.) demonstrate how the performance of the ERR will change during off-design operation. Increasing the inlet temperature of the sCO2 while maintaining the required outlet temperature results in a smaller temperature lift and decreases the heat duty of the system as a whole. When the system runs with a constant particle flow rate, the total amount of chemical heat available is constrained based on the redox reaction. Therefore, adjusting the heat transfer to the sCO2 based on changes to the operating conditions results in changes to the recovery effectiveness and the ratio of sensible to chemical heat released by the particles. This model outputs the steady state operating conditions of the three domains within the reactor at various off-design conditions that are input to an existing segmented heat transfer model to calculate the temperature profiles and local heat transfer performance, which will be verified experimentally in future work.
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U2 - 10.17185/duepublico/77309
DO - 10.17185/duepublico/77309
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85164932567
SN - 2510-7852
SP - 226
EP - 235
JO - Conference Proceedings of the European sCO2 Conference
JF - Conference Proceedings of the European sCO2 Conference
T2 - 5th European Supercritical CO2 Conference for Energy Systems, 2023
Y2 - 14 March 2023 through 16 March 2023
ER -