Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Turbines Promise Giant Leap

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Turbines Promise Giant Leap Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency will be increased to as much as 50 percent - an improvement of 50 percent for nuclear power stations equipped with steam turbines, or a 40 percent improvement for simple gas turbines. The system is also very compact, meaning that capital costs would be relatively low. Research focuses on supercritical ca ... read more

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