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1. Introduction - Firenze University Press

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3.<strong>1.</strong> JACOBIAN-ASPEN Interface<br />

ASPEN Plus ® and JACOBIAN are used to simulate an ITM integrated power cycle. A power plant<br />

flow sheet is constructed using ASPEN Plus ® , which has pre-defined unit operation models for heat<br />

exchangers, turbo-machines, splitters, chemical reactors, etc. JACOBIAN [9] is an equationoriented<br />

modelling and simulation program that is used to model the ITM. JACOBIAN and ASPEN<br />

Plus® are linked using the USER2 model block in ASPEN Plus® as shown in Fig. <strong>1.</strong><br />

Fig. <strong>1.</strong> JACOBIAN -Based ITM Model in ASPEN Plus ® using USER 2 Block [10]<br />

3.2. ITM-Power Cycle Flow Sheet<br />

Due to its high performance and compatibility, the advanced zero emission power plant (AZEP) is<br />

the most commonly studied ITM-based power plant in the literature [6, 12, 13, 15]. The AZEP<br />

concept can be used for both (essentially) zero emission cycles and partial emissions cycles [6, 13,<br />

15]. Partial emissions cycles have an additional afterburner which increases the efficiency, but also<br />

increases the CO2 emissions.<br />

The focus of this article is optimization of an AZEP 100 power cycle [6, 10, 13, 15]. The cycle is<br />

sized to produce a net electric power of 500 MW. For partial emission cycles, the base flow sheet is<br />

the same as the AZEP 100 with the exception of the inclusion of an afterburner after the hightemperature<br />

heat exchanger in order to increase the gas turbine inlet temperature to the maximum<br />

possible limit (assumed) of 1573 K. Reference [10] gives a detailed description of various ITMpower<br />

cycles and the assumptions.<br />

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