Members of the sCO2-flex project will attend the SET Plan Action Action 6 conference on 4 December in Brussels to network and present the project’s latest developments and challenges. The Integrated Strategic Energy Technologies (SET) Plan Action 6 focuses on “making EU industry less energy and resources intensive, more carbon-neutral and competitive“. The SET …
Sco2flex partners at POLIMI attended the SolarPACES conference in Daegu, South Korea in October 2019. SolarPACES has played a formative role in CSP research from the very earliest days beginning in 1977, and the role has widened as the market for dispatchable solar has become more defined to today’s commercial deployment at full-scale. As …
Just over a month ago, an innovative sCO2-based Heat removal technology for an increased level of safety of nuclear power plants was kicked-off in Paris The main aim of the sCO2-4-NPP is to bring an innovative technology based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2) for heat removal in nuclear power plants (NPPs) closer to the market. …
ETN’s biennial October Workshop took place on 1-2 October 2019 in Florence, Italy, hosted by Baker Hughes. Venue and agenda The event took place at Florence Learning Center. Workshop agenda can be downloaded here. High-Level User Meeting ETN’s annual High-Level User Meeting was held on 30 September 2019 at AC Hotel by Marriott Firenze. For more information …
The third European Conference on Supercritical CO2 took place on 19 and 20 last September, with the forth scheduled in March 2021. Download the conference proceedings. Scientists from all over Europe came together to talk about the sensible and safe use of supercritical CO2 (sCO2). Professor Brillert, Head of the Department of Turbomachinery at …
sCO2-Flex partners at POLIMI release paper on the optimisation of the part-load Operation Strategy of sCO2 Power Plans. Supercritical CO2 cycles for power generation are gaining a large interest from industry, institutions and academia as demonstrated by the large amount of investments, founded projects and research papers. This attention is motivated by the potential of …
Members of the sco2flex project will be attending ETN’s annual High-Level User Meeting held on 30 September followed by ETN’s October Workshop on 1-2 October. The workshop will provide an opportunity for users to contribute to ETN’s future strategy and activities. At this user-only meeting each user will present 1-3 technical issues to be solved …
During the first 18 months of the project, the sco2-flex consortium has published a series of reports which highlight in detail the progress made on sco2 technology so far The published reports include: sCO2 Brayton cycle architecture and components’ specifications Report on Flexibility constraints, Load scenarios definition Report on the selected cycle Report on the …
The EU has set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these goals, the share of renewable energy sources must grow rapidly. This fundamentally changes the role of conventional power generation and raises the question: How will the energy system of the future look like? By increasing the efficiency and flexibility of conventional …
Coal-fired power plants play a major role in large scale power generation by producing about 41% and 25% of the electricity in the world and in the EU, respectively. In the context of EU’s climate and energy policy (EU Reference Scenario 2016) and with a view to decarbonizing the electricity sector, the share of non-programmable …