AIRCRAFT POWER PLANT WITH SUPERCRITICAL CO2 HEAT ENGINE

Aircraft power plants including combustion engines, and associated methods for recuperating waste heat from such aircraft power plants are described. A method includes transferring the heat rejected by the internal combustion engine to supercritical CO2 (sCO2) used as a working fluid in a heat engin...

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Hauptverfasser: THOMASSIN, Jean, STAUBACH, Joseph Brent, DUSSAULT, Serge
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Aircraft power plants including combustion engines, and associated methods for recuperating waste heat from such aircraft power plants are described. A method includes transferring the heat rejected by the internal combustion engine to supercritical CO2 (sCO2) used as a working fluid in a heat engine. The heat engine converts at least some the heat transferred to the sCO2 to mechanical energy to perform useful work onboard the aircraft.