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Analysis of Maisotsenko open gas turbine bottoming cycle
Saghafifar, Mohammad; Mohammed, Gadalla (Elsevier, 2015-03)Maisotsenko gas turbine cycle (MGTC) is a recently proposed humid air turbine cycle. An air saturator is employed for air heating and humidification purposes in MGTC. In this paper, MGTC is integrated as the bottoming cycle ... -
Analysis of Maisotsenko open gas turbine power cycle with a detailed air saturator model
Saghafifar, Mohammad; Gadalla, Mohamed (Elsevier, 2015-07)With ever increasing cost of fossil fuels and natural gas, the improvement in gas turbine power cycle efficiency is needed due to the tremendous savings in fuel consumption. Water/steam injection is considered as one of ... -
Innovative inlet air cooling technology for gas turbine power plants using integrated solid desiccant and Maisotsenko cooler
Saghafifar, Mohammad; Gadalla, Mohamed (Elsevier, 2015-07)Gas turbine thermal efficiency has significant dependency on climatic conditions. Evaporative cooling is commonly utilized as an inlet air cooling technique in hot and dry climates though an increase in atmospheric humidity ... -
Performance assessment and transient optimization of air precooling in multi-stage solid desiccant air conditioning systems
Gadalla, Mohamed; Saghafifar, Mohammad (Elsevier, 2016-07-01)Renewable energy is one of the most promising solutions to both energy and global warming crisis. Energy consumption can be minimized considerably by utilizing solar energy in air conditioning systems operation. One of the ... -
Thermo-economic and comparative analyses of two recently proposed optimization approaches for circular heliostat fields: Campo radial-staggered and biomimetic spiral
Gadalla, Mohamed; Saghafifar, Mohammad (Elsevier, 2016-10-15)In this paper, comparative analyses between two newly proposed circular heliostat field layout designs, i.e. Campo radial-staggered and biomimetic spiral layouts are carried out. Moreover, different optimization objectives ... -
Thermo-economic Optimization of Hybrid Combined Power Cycles Using Heliostat Field Collector
Saghafifar, Mohammad (2016-01)Electricity has an essential role in our daily life. However, with the ever increasing cost of fossil fuels and natural gas, power generation with higher efficiency and lower capital cost is in high demand. Nowadays, global ...