(63v) Power Recovery in Combined-Cycle Plant Utilizing Organic Power Cycle

As new technology in the power industry has evolved over the last few decades, new ideas for power generation have emerged. Because combined cycle plants are able to provide two commodities for their customers ? heat and power - from one location, they have newfound popularity. With the aforementioned recent technological advances, new types of combined plants can be formed. Research into one such cycle is being conducted, in which energy from a wind farm is utilized to liquefy oxygen that is to be sent to an oxy combustion plant. The use of wind power in condensing oxygen greatly reduces oxygen transportation costs. To make this model more economical, power would need to be produced from the heating of oxygen to offset the power consumed from the condensing process. For this purpose, a low temperature power cycle would be employed, utilizing the waste heat from the power plant as the heat source. Simulations were conducted with various organic fluids in a wide range of temperatures and pressures.