Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 10/Apr/2025
8:45am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft
9:00am
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9:15am
Welcome
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: Rene Pecnik, Dieter Brillert
9:15am
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10:00am
Keynote 1: STEP - Development, Commissioning, and Testing of a 10 MWe sCO2 Power Cycle; Jeff Moore (SWRI, United States)
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: René Pecnik
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft
10:30am
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12:30pm
Applications: General (1)
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: Marco Astolfi
Chair: Andreas Werner
 
10:30am - 10:50am

Thermodynamic comparison of cryogenic and membrane oxygen production for the supercritical NET power cycle

Bernhard Lube1, Erhard Perz2, Wolfgang Sanz1

1: Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; 2: Simtech Simulation Technology, Graz, Austria



10:50am - 11:10am

Thermodynamic benchmarking of sCO2 Allam cycle against alternative oxy-fuel cycles: a comparative analysis

Ihtishamul Haq, Andreas Werner, Markus Haider

IET, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, AT



11:10am - 11:30am

Off-design operative conditions of the Desolination CO2 blended power plant with constant inventory

Matyáš Junek, Ettore Morosini, Marco Astolfi, Giampaolo Manzolini

Politecnico di Milano, Italy



11:30am - 11:50am

Off-design of a lab scale SCO2 based thermally integrated pumped thermal energy storage

Syed Safeer Mehdi Shamsi, Stefano Barberis, Simone Maccarini, Alberto Traverso

University of Genoa, Italy



11:50am - 12:10pm

Thermal characteristics of supercritical CO2 gas turbine cycles integrated with renewable methanol generation systems

Monika Sharevska, Maja Sharevska, Gerwin Hoogsteen, Johann Hurink, Artur Pozarlik, Yashar Hajimolana

University of Twente, The Netherlands



12:10pm - 12:30pm

Systematic data-driven controller tuning for reliable and efficient offdesign operation of a recuperated sCO2 cycle over a wide range of power levels and ambient temperatures

Markus Hofer, Matthias Peiretti, Michael Buck, Jörg Starflinger

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Heat transfer (1)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Jörg Starflinger
Chair: Jurriaan Peeters
 
10:30am - 10:50am

An investigation of supercritical carbon dioxide in 1.5 mm horizontal channels at elevated thermal loads

Zachary James Jackson, Peter Ireland

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



10:50am - 11:10am

Numerical Investigation of Header Design Parameters for Enhanced Flow Distribution in Minichannel Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Applications

Ahmad Ali Awais1, Markus Hofer1, Michael Buck1, Sarah Tioual-Demange2, Jörg Starflinger1

1: University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: FIVES Cryo, France



11:10am - 11:30am

Thermofluid Network Simulation of a Natural Draft Direct Dry Cooling System for a 50 MWe sCO2 Power Cycle for CSP Application

Christoffel Hendrik van Niekerk, Johannes Petrus Pretorius, Ryno Laubscher

Stellenbosch University, South Africa



11:30am - 11:50am

Mixed convection at supercritical pressures

Marko Draskic, Jerry Westerweel, Rene Pecnik

Department of Process & Energy, TU Delft, Netherlands, The



11:50am - 12:10pm

Experimental and numerical study of supercritical CO2 cooler

Giuseppe Petruccelli1, Teemu Turunen-Saaresti1, Damien Serret2, Aki Grönman1, Aurélien Conrozier2, Amir Momeni Dolatabadi1

1: LUT University, Finland; 2: TEMISTh SAS, France

12:30pm
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1:50pm
Lunch and Group Photo
Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft
Group Photo at 1:30pm (meet at the entrance of lecture room B)
1:50pm
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2:40pm
Panel 1: Heat Exchangers - Future Developments, Technological Evolutions
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: Albannie Cagnac
Panel members: Sarah Tioual-Demange, Fives Cryo, France; Renaud Le Pierres, Parker FES, Heatric Division of Meggitt Limited, United Kingdom; Damien Serret, Temisth, France
2:40pm
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2:45pm
Short Break
2:45pm
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3:45pm
Applications: Waste Heat Recovery
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: Otakar Frybort
 
2:45pm - 3:05pm

Dynamic Analysis of CO2-SO2 Recompression Rankine Cycle Using Waste Heat

Matěj Jeřábek1, Václav Dostál1, Lorenzo Cosi2, Emanuela Alfarano2, Francesco Fantozzi3

1: Czech technical university in Prague, Czech Republic; 2: Baker Hughes; 3: University of Perugia



3:05pm - 3:25pm

sCO2 waste heat recovery system optimization for electric arc furnaces exhaust stream

Ladislav Vesely1, Logan Rapp2, Jayanta Kapat1

1: University of Central Florida, United States of America; 2: Sandia National Laboratories



3:25pm - 3:45pm

Development of 2MW sCO2 power system for waste heat recovery at KEPCO

Beomjoo Kim1, Cheolhee Lee1, Seungho Ryu1, Joongmyeon Bae2

1: KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation), Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Turbomachinery (1)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Dieter Brillert
 
2:45pm - 3:05pm

Challenges in scaling sCO2 compressor speedline to different intake thermodynamic conditions

Alessandro Romei, Giacomo Persico

Politecnico di Milano, Italy



3:05pm - 3:25pm

Desolination Project sCO2 Axial Expander development

Lorenzo Cosi, Andrea Paggini, Tommaso Diurno, Andrea Nenciolini, Lorenzo Lunghi

Baker Hughes, Italy



3:25pm - 3:45pm

Computation of Performance Maps for Centrifugal Compressors in Supercritical CO2 Applications: Influence of Two-Phase Flow on choking mass flow rate

Sebastian Schuster1, Michael Wannek2, Dieter Brillert1

1: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 2: Siemens Energy Duisburg, Germany

3:45pm
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4:15pm
Coffee Break
Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft
4:15pm
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5:15pm
Applications: Heat Pumps and Geothermal
Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci
Chair: Paolo Silva
 
4:15pm - 4:35pm

Analysis and design of an ultra-high temperature heat pump using CO2 providing carbon-neutral industrial heat

Lukas Steinberg1, Stefan Glos2, Niclas Adelt2, Dominic Schlehuber2, Roland Span1

1: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Germany; 2: Siemens Energy, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany



4:35pm - 4:55pm

Transcritical CO2+Fluorobenzene High-Temperature Heat Pumps Thermally Integrated with Air Separation Unit Systems: Mixture Bubble Points Measurements and Cycle Analysis

Michele Doninelli1, Mattia Baiguini1,2, Vladimir Naumov1, Gioele Di Marcoberardino1, Paolo Giulio Iora1

1: University of Brescia, Italy; 2: IUSS Pavia



4:55pm - 5:15pm

A case study of using sCO2 equipment in different geothermal energy systems: AGS, EGS and CPG

Morteza Esmaeilpour1, Christopher Schifflechner2, Nicolas Rangel Jurado1, Tsubasa Onishi1, Daniel Pokras1, Jasper de Reus1, Sebastian Köhlert3, Martin O. Saar1

1: Chair of Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ETH Zurich; 2: Chair of Energy Systems, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich; 3: MAN Energy Solutions Schweiz AG, Switzerland

Experiments and Loops (1)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Uwe Gampe
 
4:15pm - 4:35pm

The Development of an sCO2 Test Facility for Particle-to-sCO2 Heat Exchanger Performance Evaluation

Bryan J. Siefering1, Muhammad Umer1, Ellen B. Stechel2, Brian M. Fronk1

1: The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America; 2: Arizona State University, United States of America



4:35pm - 4:55pm

Design challenges and preliminary test results of a high temperature supercritical carbon dioxide dry gas seal test rig

Abdelrahman Abdeldayem, Sajal Kissoon, Eduardo Anselmi Palma

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cranfield University, United Kingdom



4:55pm - 5:15pm

Results of the project "Purification and purity control of CO2 gas in power cycles - CiCiMe"

Jan Berka1,2, Tomáš Hlinčík2, Karel Dočkal1, Jiří Vávrovec1, Jan Hásek1, Patricie Halodová1, Alice Vágenknechtová2, Viktor Tekáč2, Jan Vít1, Kamil Sobek1, Lucia Rozumová1

1: Centrum výzkumu Řež s.r.o., Czech Republic; 2: University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic

6:30pm
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10:30pm
Gala Dinner
Location: New Church (Nieuwe Kerk), Markt 80, 2611 GW Delft, Netherlands

 
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