News & Events
sCO2-4-NPP presents at sCO2-Flex Final Event
Join us on June 16th, 2021, at the sCO2-Flex Final Event: The Roles of sCO2 Cycles in the EU’s Future Energy System. This afternoon online event promises to be a gathering of minds for the European sCO2 R&D community. sCO2-4-NPP will present its sCO2-based heat...
Best Paper Award from the 4th European sCO2 Conference
Congratulations to the authors on winning Best Paper Award from the 4th European sCO2 Conference for the paper “Simulation and Analysis of a Self-Propelling Heat Removal System Using Supercritical CO2 at Different Ambient Temperatures”. This research and paper was a...
Commissioning of Turbomachine with Magnetic Bearings Successfully Completed
Figure: Commissioning of new turbomachine with magnetic bearings in the sCO2-HeRo cycle by partners UDE (Alexander Hacks, middle), KSG/GfS (Thomas Freutel, left) and subcontractor MECOS AG (Beat Aeschlimann, right) In the sCO2-4-NPP project, partner University...
sCO2-4-NPP at upcoming conferences
sCO2-4-NPP partners Fives Cryo, University of Duisburg-Essen, and University of Stuttgart will present papers at the upcoming 4th European Conference on Supercritical CO2 for Energy Systems to be held online on March 23 and 24, 2021: Operational analysis of a...
3D-printed 1-to-1 scale model of turbomachine
Figure: 3D-printed 1-to-1 scale models of turbomachines developed in the sCO2-HeRo project (left) and its improved version from sCO2-4-NPP project (right) for laboratory scale experiments In the sCO2-4-NPP project, partner University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in...
Call for papers – The 4th European sCO2 Conference
Calling all sCO2 researchers! The 4th European sCO2 Conference will be held 22-26 March 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic. Conference topics include: Heat Exchangers Turbomachines and Cycles sCO2 Applications and Energy Systems sCO2 Experiments and Loops Fluid and...
WP1 Meeting at Essen
The WP1 team, responsible for the data collection and validation of thermal hydraulic system codes in the Glass Model, met on 28 November 2019 in Essen, Germany. Team members toured the Glass Model at partner GfS and a demonstration of the sCO2-HeRo loop was given.
sCO2-4-NPP Kick-off Meeting
The sCO2-4-NPP project held its Kick-off Meeting on 17-18 September 2019 at the EDF Lab Paris-Saclay Research Centre in Palaiseau, France.
This project has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 847606. This text reflects only the author’s view and the Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.