Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Temperature–entropy diagram for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. Tin,turbine = 600 °C and ζ = 1.0%.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: S-CO2 configurations: (a) simple, (b) RC, and (c) MC. Adapted from Ref. [2].

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Thermal validation of the proposed Model. Data taken from Kulhánek and Dostál [6] and Turchi et al. [2].

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: CFD. Location: Alice Springs, Australia.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of pressure drop in the solar receiver on the cycle first law efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. Ref: steam (USC) plant, ηI ∼ 47% operating at 732/760 °C and 35 MPa [65].

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of turbine inlet temperature on optimum total pressure ratio, rp, for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. ζ = 2.5%.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of solar receiver temperature approach in the solar receiver on the overall exergy efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. ζ = 1.0%.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of solar receiver temperature approach in the solar receiver on the overall exergy efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. ζ = 2.5%.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of surface temperature in the solar receiver on the overall exergy efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations. ζ = 5.0%.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of solar field efficiency and radiation view factor on the optimum overall exergy efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations without reheat. ζ = 2.5%. (a) ΔTR = 100 °C and (b) ΔTR = 200 °C.

Date of download: 11/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Effect of Pressure Drop and Reheating on Thermal and Exergetic Performance of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycles Integrated With a Solar Central Receiver J. Sol. Energy Eng. 2015;137(5):051012-051012-12. doi:10.1115/1.4031215 Figure Legend: Effect of solar field efficiency and radiation view factor on the optimum turbine inlet temperature to maximize the overall exergy efficiency for different S-CO2 Brayton cycle configurations without reheat. ζ = 2.5%. (a) ΔTR = 100 °C and (b) ΔTR = 200 °C.