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Reference Number InnUK/101982/01
Title Supercritical CO2 Waste Heat Recovery for Marine Gas Turbines
Status Completed
Energy Categories Energy Efficiency(Transport) 50%;
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion) 50%;
Research Types Applied Research and Development 100%
Science and Technology Fields ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Project Contact
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Rolls-Royce PLC
Award Type Collaborative Research & Development
Funding Source Innovate-UK
Start Date 01 March 2015
End Date 28 February 2018
Duration 36 months
Total Grant Value £883,536
Industrial Sectors
Region London
Programme Competition Call: 1401_CRD_TRANS_BSAS - Vessel efficiency II: better systems at sea. Activity Vessel Efficiency II - better systems at sea
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Project Contact , Rolls-Royce PLC (40.229%)
  Other Investigator Project Contact , Cranfield University (40.698%)
Project Contact , Meggitt (UK) Limited (19.073%)
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Abstract The combination of high fuel prices and more stringent emissions legislation (particularly IMO Tier III) has led to an increasing interest in waste heat recovery technologies across the marine sector. Gas turbines reject a large quantity of heat to the atmosphere compared with their reciprocating counterparts. Recovery of this heat using a bottoming cycle with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid has the potential to achieve a combined cycle efficiency approaching 55% - a step-change in efficiency over a simple cycle and an opportunity to overcome poor efficiency at part-load. Electrical power is expected to be the most desirable output of the heat recovery system, although mechanical power is also possible. Significant advantages in compactness are achievable over alternative waste heat recovery technologies.The combination of high fuel prices and more stringent emissions legislation (particularly IMO Tier III) has led to an increasing interest in waste heat recovery technologies across the marine sector. Gas turbines reject a large quantity of heat to the atmosphere compared with their reciprocating counterparts. Recovery of this heat using a bottoming cycle with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid has the potential to achieve a combined cycle efficiency approaching 55% - a step-change in efficiency over a simple cycle and an opportunity to overcome poor efficiency at part-load. Electrical power is expected to be the most desirable output of the heat recovery system, although mechanical power is also possible. Significant advantages in compactness are achievable over alternative waste heat recovery technologies.The combination of high fuel prices and more stringent emissions legislation (particularly IMO Tier III) has led to an increasing interest in waste heat recovery technologies across the marine sector. Gas turbines reject a large quantity of heat to the atmosphere compared with their reciprocating counterparts. Recovery of this heat using a bottoming cycle with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid has the potential to achieve a combined cycle efficiency approaching 55% - a step-change in efficiency over a simple cycle and an opportunity to overcome poor efficiency at part-load. Electrical power is expected to be the most desirable output of the heat recovery system, although mechanical power is also possible. Significant advantages in compactness are achievable over alternative waste heat recovery technologies.
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