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Session Overview
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Date: Thursday, 10/Apr/2025
10:30am
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12:30pm
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

2:45pm
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3:45pm
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

4:15pm
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5:15pm
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

Date: Friday, 11/Apr/2025
10:30am
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12:30pm
Turbomachinery (2)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Teemu Turunen-Saaresti
Chair: Giacomo Persico
 
10:30am - 10:50am

Development of a Dry Gas Seal for turbomachinery in high-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide applications

Jakson Andretta1, Felix Meier1, Benjamin Hellmig1, Andreas Fesl1, Petia Philippi1, Armin Laxander1, Thomas Kerr2

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

Caroline De villiers, Ryno Laubscher, Pieter Rousseau, Johannes Pretorius

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

Beomjoo Kim1, Cheolhee Lee1, Joongmyeon Bae2

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

Muhammad Nouman Saleem1, Andrea Paggini2, Lorenzo Cosi2, Giordana Marcon2, Giacomo Persico1

1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Baker Hughes, Nuovo Pignone, Italy



11:50am - 12:10pm

Supercritical carbon dioxide externally pressurized porous media bearings

Darryn Fleming1, Dave Dewis2, Drew Devitt3, Logan Rapp1

1: Sandia National Laboratories, US; 2: Dewis Consulting Bath, US; 3: New Way Air Bearings Aston, US

2:35pm
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3:35pm
Heat transfer (2)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Renaud Le Pierres
 
2:35pm - 2:55pm

Experimental study on S-shaped fins for high heat flux cooling with supercritical CO2

Ryan Ghent, Peter Ireland, Zachary Jackson

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



2:55pm - 3:15pm

An investigation on heat transfer deterioration in a tube using supercritical CO2

Amir Momeni Dolatabadi, Giuseppe Petruccelli, Seyed Ehsan Rafiee, Aki Grönman, Teemu Turunen-Saaresti

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

Colin Francois du Sart1, Pieter Rousseau2

1: University of Cape Town, South Africa; 2: Stellenbosch University, South Africa

4:00pm
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5:00pm
Experiments and Loops (2)
Location: Lecture Room B - Isaac Newton
Chair: Marko Draskic
 
4:00pm - 4:20pm

Coupling of Molten Salt and Supercritical CO₂ Circuits: Design and Operational Experience

Daniel Kriz, Tomas Melichar, Radomir Filip, Jan Hasek

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

Sebastian Unger1, Stefan Fogel1, Peter Schütz1, Ricardo Chacartegui Ramirez2, Andres Carro2, Márton Pál Farkas3, Cornelia Schmidt-Hattenberger3, Uwe Hampel1,4

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


 
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