Research Article

Completely Recuperative Supercritical CO2 Recompression Brayton/Absorption Combined Power/Cooling Cycle: Performance Assessment and Optimization

Table 4

Optimal parameter selection of the decision variables for different objective cases.

ParametersBase caseOptimal cases
case case case

TUR1 inlet temperature (K)823.15827.33867.85920.41
TUR1 inlet pressure (MPa)2526.5125.5628.20
TUR2 inlet pressure (MPa)3.53.952.972.84
WHE1 outlet degree of overheat (K)52.232.15.46
WHE1 pitch point difference (K)2046.4515.3620.76
TUR2 inlet ammonia concentration 0.790.9240.9170.901
GEN outlet temperature (K)130137.4115.6116.85
ABS1 outlet ammonia concentration 0.420.410.430.38
Split ratio 0.4180.3750.2050.216
Brayton subcycle output work (MW)139.05156.88215.10249.34
Absorption subcycle output work (MW)40.7943.3635.8039.16
Absorption subcycle refrigeration capacity (MW)142.42218.89210.02215.17
Absorption subcycle mass flow rate (kg/s)189.47211.62206.91215.65
Thermal efficiency 68.74%84.79%82.44%81.41%
Exergy efficiency 63.18%67.16%72.35%72.16%
Unit cost of the system products ($/GJ)11.66711.0169.4899.456