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A Combined Cycle With Gas Turbine Topping and Thermodynamically Ideal Gas Turbine Bottoming
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It has been shown that the ideal fuel burning engine, which is named the Wicks Cycle, can be implemented as a three process gas turbine cycle consisting of isothermal compression, heat addition and reversible adiabatic expansion to the ambient temperature as well as ambient pressure. However, such a cycle operating at typical fuel combustion temperatures requires excessive pressure ratios. This paper examines whether such a cycle, or a gas turbine cycle with compressor intercooling, may be a realistic bottoming cycle in a combined cycle plant, as an alternative to either existing practice steam cycles or to the proposed alternative Kalina Cycle.
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Wicks, F., Berven, G., and Marchionne, D., "A Combined Cycle With Gas Turbine Topping and Thermodynamically Ideal Gas Turbine Bottoming," SAE Technical Paper 929012, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929012.Also In
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- Wicks, Frank 1991 “The Thermodynamic Theory and Design of an Ideal Fuel Burning Engine” Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference Boston August 1991 2 474 481
- Zervos, N. G. Leibowitz, H.M. Robinson, K. “Innovative Kalina Cycle Promises High Efficiency” Power 177 179 April 1992