Modeling of thermodynamic processes using the properties of matter presented in the form of spreadsheets

Abstract

New thermodynamic cycles are developed in which the working fluid used cannot be considered as an ideal gas. This applies to oxy-fuel combustion cycles. In these cycles, oxygen is separated from the air prior to combustion. The combustion chamber is supplied with fuel and pure oxygen. The required temperature at the outlet of the combustion chamber is achieved by supplying some other substances from which it is easy to separate the CO2 formed during the combustion of the fuel. Commonly, CO2, or H2O, or their mixture is used as such substances. Thus, there are no exotic substances in the composition of the working fluid, but such a range of parameters is chosen for such cycles that the working fluid at certain points of the cycle can be both gaseous and liquid, or in a supercritical state. To model thermodynamic processes in such cycles, it is unacceptable to use the polytropic equation of ideal gases. A technique for integrating differential equations describing the state of the working fluid is proposed. This technique is based on the presentation of the thermodynamic properties of pure substances that make up the working fluid in the form of spreadsheets. The proposed technique is implemented in a software-computing module.