Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles and Related Energy Systems

​​Lin Chen, Ph.D., is a full professor and Director of the Heat and Mass Transfer Research Center at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and jointly at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is a board member of the Experts Commission of China Energy Society. Dr. Chen obtained his B.E and Ph.D. from Peking University. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. His current research topics include new energy and power engineering, CCUS (geological flow), energy resources (gas hydrate, hydrogen), and supercritical fluids. He is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team focusing on CO2 based energy-power system. He has authored over 300 journal papers and/or conference presentations, 20 patents, and five professional books, including Handbook of Research on Advancements in Supercritical Fluids Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems (IGI Global, 2021). He has served 10 times as a Chair/major organizer and 40 times as a plenary/invited speaker at international conferences and symposiums. He won the Young Scholar Award of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering in 2018, the Research Paper Award of the Visualization Society of Japan in 2022, and the Chenxuejun Paper Award of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics in 2024. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier). Jinliang Xu, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering at North China Electric Power University and has been the Director of the Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and System, China. He has over thirty years of experience in multiphase flow and heat transfer. Dr. Xu has obtained visiting positions in Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. He led the National Key R&D Program of China and the National Basic Research Program of China for ten years. Dr. Xu is active in the field of multiphase flow. He is the editor of the journals Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Frontiers in Heat Pipe, Water, and Energies. Dr. Xu has been a guest editor for special issues of the journals Energy and Applied Thermal Engineering. He has presented 40 plenary/keynote speeches at international conferences and has been a reviewer for more than 40 journals. He published more than 300 scientific papers and co-authored two books as a corresponding author. Dr. Xu received the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, China, and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (2021). Jian Xie, Ph.D., is an associate professor at North China Electric Power University, where he is the team leader for advanced power generation system innovation. His research interests include heat transfer of multiphase flow and supercritical fluid, advanced power cycle and low-grade energy utilization, and thermal storage in solar or coal-fired power plants. He published over 40 papers in international journals and obtained over 20 granted patents. Dr. Xie won the IAAM Scientist Award from the International Association of Advanced Materials, the Chen Xuejun Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholars, and the Young Elite Scientists sponsorship program. He has also delivered 12 plenary/keynote lectures at international academic conferences and was named an Excellent Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Thermal Science in 2022.Jiangfeng Guo, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a Fellow at Imperial College London and obtained his Bachelor’s degree from North China Electric Power University and his Doctoral degree from Shandong University. His current research interests include the application of fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat, and mass transfer to innovative high-performance heat exchange components, technologies and systems for energy (heat, power, cooling) recovery, utilization, and conversion with an emphasis on the efficient and cost-effective utilization of renewable and waste heat, and solar energy. He has authored over 100 international journal papers and conference presentations. He was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union. He is an Associate Editor of Frontier in Energy Research and an editorial board member of Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer.

• Part 1: Fundamentals of sCO2 fluid nature.- Chapter 1: Analysis of Fluctuations of Supercritical Region CO2 by SANS.- Chapter 2: Preliminary Analysis and Verifications of Supercritical CO2 Complex Phase Behaviors.- Chapter 3: Experimental Study on Critical Flow of High-Temperature and High-Pressure Supercritical Carbon Dioxide at Transient State.- Chapter 4: Experimental Study on Supercritical Heat Transfer Characteristics of CO2/R134a Mixtures.- Part 2: Heat transfer and flow behaviors of  sCO2.- Chapter 5: Experimental and Simulation Investigation on Heat Transfer Deterioration of sCO2.- Chapter 6: Characterization of Flow Dynamic Behaviors of Critical Size Nozzle Flow of Supercritical CO2 for Power Systems.- Chapter 7: Dynamic Mode Decomposition Study of Transient Heat Transfer Behavior of Turbulent Boundary Layer in sCO2 Channel.- Chapter 8: Study on the Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Manifold Microchannels with Column-Row Structures.- Chapter 9: Numerical Investigation of Jet Impingement on Concave Cooling of sCO2 under Different Heat Flux.- Part 3: Equipment design and analysis of sCO2 power cycles.- Chapter 10: Investigations of Longitudinal Conduction Effect on Heat Transfer Performance.- Chapter 11: Simulation Analysis of Thermal-hydraulic Performance and Heat Transfer Enhancement Structure.- Chapter 12: Heat Transfer Characteristics and Calculation Method of Supercritical CO2 Boiler.- Chapter 13: Study on Performance Prediction of Supercritical CO2 Compressor.- Chapter 14: Thermal Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication Characteristics Analysis.- Chapter 15: Numerical Investigation of a Novel Gravity-driven Moving Bed Reactor.- Part 4: Performance assessment and multi-energy applications.- Chapter 16: System Simulation on Semi-closed Supercritical CO2-mixture.- Chapter 17: The Economics of Wind Photovoltaic Storage System.- Chapter 18: Off-design Characteristics of Equipment on Optimization.- Chapter 19: Investigation of Trans/supercritical CO2-based Mixed Working Fluids Cycle Performance.- Chapter 20: Dynamic Performance Analysis and Control Strategy of Supercritical CO2 Waste Heat Recovery System.- Chapter 21: Thermodynamic Optimization of Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles.