Project sponsored by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF

Project Start: 1995; Project End: 1998

Project Applicants / Contact: Prof. Dr. Herbert Jericha, Dr. Wolfgang Sanz

Objective: Together with other industrialised nations Austria had agreed in reducing its CO2 production. In this research project a cycle for fossil fuel firing is designed based on the "Graz cycle" developed in H.Jericha ,1987, Efficiency steam cycle with internal combustion of hydrogen and stoichiometric oxygen for turbines and piston engines, Int.J.Hydr.Energy, Vol.12, No.5. This cycle - first designed for the firing of hydrogen and oxygen - shall be investigated for its ability to work with a fluid of steam and CO2 and to internally burn methane and oxygen. In such a cycle there is the possibility to separate all of the CO2 produced during combustion from the exhaust gas. This CO2 then can be stored or reused in other technical processes. The thermodynamic parameters of such a cycle, the turbomachinery and the heat exchangers shall be developed.

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