不可逆中冷回热太阳能布雷顿循环系统的优化分析

Performance Optimization of a Solar-driven Irreversible Intercooled Regenerated Brayton Cycle

建立了由太阳能集热器模型和不可逆中冷回热布雷顿循环模型组成的恒温热源条件下太阳能布雷顿循环系统,以系统总效率为目标函数,考虑了高低温侧换热器、回热器和中冷器的热阻损失以及压缩机和涡轮机的不可逆损失,借助数值计算对太阳能集热器的工作温度进行了优化,并分析了主要特征参数对总效率的影响.结果表明:太阳能布雷顿循环系统中存在一个最佳的太阳能集热器工作温度和相应的最大总效率及最大总输出功率;在此基础上,通过优化中间压比可使循环系统的总效率和相应的总输出功率达到双重最大值;系统总效率随着回热器传热有效度和光学效率的增加而提高;系统运行时存在一个最佳的总压比.

An irreversible solar-driven heat engine system with constant-temperature heat-reservoirs has been built up, which consists of the model of a solar collector and an intercooled regenerated Brayton cycle. Taking the overall efficiency as the objective function, and considering both the heat resistance in high/low temperature-side heat exchanger, regenerative heater and intercooler, and the irreversible loss in compressor and turbine, the operating temperature of solar collector has been optimized with the help of numerical simulation, while influence of the main parameters on its overall efficiency analyzed. Results show that for the solar-driven Brayton cycle, there exists an optimum collector operating temperature, a corresponding maximum overall efficiency and a maximum total output power; on this basis, both the overall efficiency and the total output power may reach their maximum value by optimizing the intermediate pressure ratio; the overall efficiency increases with the rise of thermal and optical efficiency of regenerative heater; there exists an optimum total pressure ratio for the system.