January 24, 2025
Our partner University of Twente has just published a new, open access paper dealing with the optimization of Hydrogen Supercritical Oxy-Combustion in Gas Turbines. The study investigates the combustion of hydrogen in supercritical gas turbines, emphasizing the optimization of combustor design through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Key parameters analysed include the number of oxygen inlets, operating pressure, excess working fluid in oxygen inlets, power output, and the use of different working fluids: supercritical argon (sAr) and supercritical xenon (sXe). Overall study provides valuable information on optimizing the design of supercritical combustion chambers for hydrogen combustion in novel supercritical gas turbine systems. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.3390/fuels6010006
