Continue Rankine Cycle Improvements Supercritical reheat cycle: For water/steam: Terit=374 C Pcrit=22.064 MPa Advantage: very high heat addition →high n Disadvantage: material requirements 4 (thermal/mechanical stress) S →high initial costs 上游充通大 Wednesday,May 03,2017 11 SHANGHAI JLAO TONG UNIVERSITYWednesday, May 03, 2017 11 Continue Rankine Cycle Improvements Supercritical reheat cycle: For water/steam: Tcrit = 374 oC pcrit = 22.064 MPa Advantage: • very high heat addition high h Disadvantage: • material requirements (thermal/mechanical stress) high initial costs