High-Fidelity Simulations of Supercritical CO2 Based Oxy-Combustion with Non-Ideal Equation of State

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Abstract

The supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Allam-Fetvedt cycle employs high-temperature oxy-combustion using sCO2 as the working fluid, leading to a unique and challenging environment for materials. In this cycle, pressurized gaseous fuel is combusted in the presence of a hot oxidant flow containing a mixture of CO2 and oxygen and a hot CO2 diluent recycle stream at approximately 300 bar under lean combustion conditions. We present high-fidelity reacting simulations of this oxy-combustor environment and compare the results when performing simulations with ideal and non-ideal equations of state. By doing so, we identify if the combustor behavior at the regime of interest is sensitive enough to the equation of state to justify the added computational cost incurred with a non-ideal equation of state.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages11
StatePublished - 2022

Publication series

NamePresented at the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Spring Meeting, 21-22 March 2022, Stanford, California

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-2C00-82295

Keywords

  • equation of state
  • numerical simulation
  • oxy-combustion
  • supercritical carbon dioxide

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