Research Article
Experimental Study on a Small-Scale Transcritical CO2 Rankine Cycle for Solar Thermal Applications
Table 4
Experiment variable and fixed conditions.
| | Variable (fixed condition) | Value (range) | Unit |
| | Cycle loop | Test temperature (T3) | 60–120 | °C | | Injected CO2 weight | 25.8 | kg | | Working fluid (CO2) mass flow rate | 0.040 | kg/s |
| | Cooler | Cooling water temperature | 4 | °C | | Cooling water mass flow rate | 0.764 | kg/s |
| | Others | Laboratory temperature | 19 | °C | | Air-compressor pressure | 0.8 | MPa | | Air pressure for driving pump | 0.2 | MPa |
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