Supercritical carbon dioxide could boost concentrated solar plant efficiency by more than 10%

https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/supercritical-carbon-dioxide-could-boost-concentrated-solar-plant-efficiency-by-more-than-10

"up to 720 °C and 275 bar... a fraction of the size of conventional turbomachinery... can increase the efficiency of a CSP plant by as much as 10 percentage points... The high efficiency of the sCO2 cycle also allows the turbomachinery to have a smaller footprint—it is 1/20th the size of a standard steam turbine"

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