Advances in natural gas turbines achieved similar thermal efficiencies at lower costs, by having the turbine's exhaust drive a Rankine cycle steam plant.
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The mercury cycle offers an efficiency increase compared to a steam-only cycle because energy can be injected into the Rankine Cycle at higher temperature.
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Two schemes of power generation exist at this point : either using superheated steam or supercritical carbon dioxide to drive Rankine cycle or Brayton cycle turbines.
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Tabor and French immigrant Lucien Bronicki developed a small solar power unit, an Organic Rankine cycle turbine, for developing countries with problematic power grids.
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Tabor and French immigrant Lucien Bronicki developed a small solar power unit, the Organic Rankine cycle turbine, for developing countries with problematic power grids.
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The gas cycle is less efficient than the vapor compression cycle because the gas cycle works on the reverse Brayton cycle instead of the reverse Rankine cycle.
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The organic Rankine cycle technology has many possible applications, and counts more than 2.7 GW of installed capacity and 698 identified power plants worldwide.
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The Rankine cycle and most practical steam engines have a water pump to recycle or top up the boiler water, so that they may be run continuously.
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Although the Schoell patent is titled " Heat regenerative engine ", it does not use the regenerative Rankine cycle nor does it use a regenerative heat exchanger.
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Birdsville also has an 80 kW bore on the Great Artesian Basin at 98 �C and is used to heat the operating fluid isopentane in a Rankine Cycle engine.
