Research Article

Development and Verification of a Transient Analysis Tool for Reactor System Using Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle as Power Conversion System

Table 2

Relative prediction error of the developed CO2 property package compared to NIST REFPROP 9.0.

CO2 PropertySymbolRegionsRelative error

Saturated liquid enthalpy-±0.015%

Saturated vapor enthalpy-±0.009%

TemperatureTsubcooled area-0.05% to 0.1%, 99% of which is within relative errors of ±0.05%
superheated region 1±0.2%, 99% of which is within relative errors of ±0.1%
superheated region 2-0.1% to 0.25%, 99% of which is within relative errors of ±0.05%

Specific volumevsubcooled area-0.5% to 1%, 99% of which is within relative errors of ±0. 5%
superheated region 1-1% to 4%, 99% of which is within relative errors of ±1%.
superheated region 2-0.5% to 0.1%, 95% of which is within relative errors of ±0.1%

Dynamic viscosityμ--1.5% to 0.5%, 99% of which is within ±0.5%