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Intelligent computer aided optimization on specific power of an OTEC Rankine power plant

✍ Scribed by C Wu; T.J Burke

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
155 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1359-4311

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✦ Synopsis

AbstractÐSpeci®c power, power per unit total heat exchanger surface area, of a heat engine is chosen to be the objective function in the design of an OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) Rankine power plant. An ICAI (Intelligent Computer Aided Instruction) computer software, CyclePad, with Refrigerant-12 as the working ¯uid operating between a warm ocean water heat source and a cold ocean water heat sink is used in the design process. Through manipulation of the boiler pressure and condenser pressure, the speci®c power of the OTEC plant is calculated and an upper bound is determined. This bound can direct the design of current and future OTEC heat engines to provide bene®cial applications in industry.

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