Table 10 Electricity generation cost of supercritical carbon dioxide cycles.

From: 4E analysis of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) cycles: evaluating energy, exergy, environmental sustainability, and economic impacts in combined systems

Economic items

Calculation of the results of reference economic relations.

Simple

Recuperator

Split

NET POWER (W ̇)

7229

7850

9604

PEC (m$)

5.899

7.334

9.532

TCI = 7.47 x PEC (M$)

44.064

54.0787

71.206

CRF

0.124

H (hour)

8000

ZC = 0.000116 x PEC / NET POWER ($)

0.095

0.108

0.115

ZOM = 0.06 x ZC ($)

0.0057

0.0065

0.0069

ZE ($/KWh)

0.100

0.115

0.122

$/KW (CO2)

800

920

976

$/KW (STEAM)

 

900-1100

 

\(\$ /{\text{KWh }}\left( {\frac{{{\text{Co}}_{{\text{2}}} }}{{STEAM}}} \right)\))

0.8

0.92

0.98