The 6th European Conference on
Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) for Energy Systems
Delft, The Netherlands | 9 - 11 April 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Friday, 11/Apr/2025 | ||
8:45am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft |
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9:00am - 9:45am |
Keynote 2: EU Projects; Rafael Guedez Mata (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci |
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9:45am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break and Poster Session Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft During the coffee break, you are encouraged to join the poster session, where researchers will present and discuss their work in an interactive setting.
Poster boards will be provided.
Presenters are encouraged to stand by their posters during the session to discuss their work and answer questions.
A simple high-temperature CO2 heat pump cycle for hot air production German Aerospace Agency, Germany Microstructure and corrosion behavior of the coatings based on brazing process on 316Ti and 253MA steel with aluminum-based coating 1: Centrum výzkumu Řež s.r.o., Czech Republic; 2: VŠCHT University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic First year of the SCO2OP-TES project - SCO2 operating pumped thermal energy storage for grid/industry cooperation Thermochemical Power Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Genova Recent advances in SCO2 applications and equipment for energy systems National Formosa University, Yunlin-632, Taiwan Visualisation Method for the Analysis of Thermodynamic Processes in CO₂ Based Thermodynamic Cycles 1: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; 2: Nuclear Safety Department, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Hungary A newly developed setup to study heat transfer with sCO2 at CERN 1: CERN, CH; 2: Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, DE; 3: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Techno-economic analysis of CO2 impurities' impact on an sCO2 system performance Technische Universität Dresden, Germany A systematic analysis of the thermofluid network modelling methodology for CO2 power cycles based on different fluid property assumptions Stellenbosch University, South Africa The potential of dimethyl ether in sustainable power generation - thermodynamic analysis of two oxy-combustion power cycles with integrated carbon capture and purification 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW-4), Jülich, DE; 2: 2 RWTH Aachen University, Aachener Verfahrenstechnik, Process and Plant Engineering for Chemical Hydrogen Storage, Aachen, DE |
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10:30am - 12:30pm |
Applications: Nuclear and Solar Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci Chair: Vaclav Dostal Chair: Jurriaan Peeters Investigating the dynamic possibilities of a nuclear sCO2 power conversion cycle for naval implementation 1: Royal Netherlands Navy; 2: Damen Naval, Vlissingen, The Netherlands; 3: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 10:50am - 11:10am Control Analysis of ARC-100 Reactor with sCO2 Cycle Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America 11:10am - 11:30am Thermodynamic design and analysis of closed-loop CO2 power cycle for fusion power plant 1: UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd; 2: UK Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom 11:30am - 11:50am High temperature nuclear cogeneration utilizing supercritical CO2 for enhanced thermal efficiency 1: Czech Technical University, Czech Republic; 2: Czech Technical University, Czech Republic 11:50am - 12:10pm Optimization of the integration of fluidized bed particle heat exchanger in sCO2-based solar tower plants Politecnico di Milano, Italy 12:10pm - 12:30pm Comparison of sCO2, CO2 mixture, and steam Rankine cycles for CSP with components sizing: implications for cost and flexibility 1: University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 2: RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany |
Turbomachinery (2) Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton Chair: Teemu Turunen-Saaresti Chair: Giacomo Persico Development of a Dry Gas Seal for turbomachinery in high-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide applications 1: EagleBurgmann Germany, Germany; 2: Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, TX, USA 10:50am - 11:10am Preliminary design and sensitivity analysis of centrifugal compressor train for a 50 MWe SCO2 Brayton power cycle for CSP applications Stellenbosch University, South Africa 11:10am - 11:30am Design and testing of a compressor and turbine for a 2MW sCO2 Power System in Waste Heat Recovery Applications 1: Korea Electric Power Corporation Research Institute Daejeon, SK; 2: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, Sk 11:30am - 11:50am Low- and high-fidelity modeling of the flow in a multi-stage axial turbine for supercritical carbon dioxide power systems 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Baker Hughes, Nuovo Pignone, Italy 11:50am - 12:10pm Supercritical carbon dioxide externally pressurized porous media bearings 1: Sandia National Laboratories, US; 2: Dewis Consulting Bath, US; 3: New Way Air Bearings Aston, US |
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Panel 2: Turbomachinery; Technologies in Current and Next-Generation Plants Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci Chair: Paolo Silva Panel members: Stefan Glos, Siemens Energy, Germany; Štěpán Šmida, Doosan Škoda Power, Czechia; Andrea Paggini, Baker Hughes-Nuovo Pignone, Italy; Sebastiano Mauri, MAN Energy Solutions, Switzerland
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2:30pm - 2:35pm |
Short Break |
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2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Applications: Energy Storage Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci Chair: Marco Astolfi Detailed Design and Techno-Economic Assessment of a Transcritical CO2-Based Carnot Battery System for Long Duration Energy Storage Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2:55pm - 3:15pm CO2 transport and geological storage under supercritical conditions: preliminary study of the integration with renewable electrothermal energy storage 1: Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 2: Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal; 3: Converge!. Lda, Évora Portugal; 4: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany; 5: Laboratory of Engineering for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Sevilla, Spain 3:15pm - 3:35pm Brayton Cycle Using sCO2 Mixtures as Working Fluid for Pumped Thermal Energy Storage. Exergy and Cost Analysis. 1: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; 2: Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador |
Heat transfer (2) Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton Chair: Renaud Le Pierres Experimental study on S-shaped fins for high heat flux cooling with supercritical CO2 University of Oxford, United Kingdom 2:55pm - 3:15pm An investigation on heat transfer deterioration in a tube using supercritical CO2 LUT university, Finland 3:15pm - 3:35pm Thermofluid design and off design performance of an air cooled heat exchanger system for a 50 MWe sCO2 CSP Plant 1: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 2: Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
3:35pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: Foyer, Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft |
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4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Applications: General (2) Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci Chair: René Pecnik Simple is beautiful - the concept of a bare-bone transcritical CO2 cycle to generate power from "low-temperature and small heat flux" sources Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, HU 4:20pm - 4:40pm Performance assessment of sCO2- and organic fluid based cycles integrated with LNG gasification plants 1: University of Cagliari, Cagliari, IT; 2: Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Kempten, DE 4:40pm - 5:00pm Energy and Exergy Performance of Hydrogen Turbine Coupled with Partial Heating Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cycle 1: Korea Institute of Energy Technology, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Korea Electric Power Corporation Research Institute, Republic of (South Korea) |
Experiments and Loops (2) Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton Chair: Marko Draskic Coupling of Molten Salt and Supercritical CO₂ Circuits: Design and Operational Experience Research Centre Rez, Czech Republic 4:20pm - 4:40pm Experimental investigation of the power production cycle in a CO2 based electrothermal energy and geological storage system 1: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany; 2: Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain; 3: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; 4: Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany |
5:00pm - 5:15pm |
Closing Session Location: Lecture Room A - Leonardo da Vinci Chair: Rene Pecnik, Dieter Brillert |
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