The goal of this work is to develop a preliminary analysis on the feasibility of using an alternative automotive air conditioning system based on the Brayton cycle, to be assembled using a turbocompression-intercooling system configuration available in the market. The first step of the analysis was a thermodynamic study to define the system capacity and parameters for selecting the system compo...

A Brayton cycle with, external and internal irreversibilities, is analyzed. Optimization of the dimensionless work with respect to two parameters: the isentropic temperatures ratio and the allocation ratio of the heat exchangers, is performed. The qualitative and asymptotic behaviour of the coupled optimal analytic expressions obtained are presented. Using realistic numerical values of the isen...

This report summarizes work to examine interstage heating and cooling options for multiple reheat helium Brayton cycle power conversion system (PCS) designs. Previous work has demonstrated that thermal powers in the range of 2400 MWt can be readily derived from combining multiple single-expansion units derived from the 600-MWt, vertical shaft gas-turbine module helium reactor (GT-MHR). This PCS...

In this paper combined Brayton–Rankine cycle was mathematically simulated. In the Matlab program package an adequate numerical procedure has been developed to determine the maximum thermal efficiency of the combined cycle limited by the temperature of exhaust gases at the entrance of the gas turbine and the temperature of the condensation of water vapour in the steam condenser. Furthermore, add...