For the first time ever, electricity is delivered through heated supercritical carbon dioxide.
“We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation,” said Rodney Keith, manager for the advanced concepts group working on the technology.
On April 12, the Sandia engineering team managed to successfully heat up their supercritical CO2 system to 600 degrees Fahrenheit and use it to provide power to the grid. They generated 10 kilowatts of power which might not seem like much but is an important first step.
The end result was that the Sandia team adapted the commercial-off-the-shelf power electronics from an elevator parts company to control feeding power from their test loop into the grid.
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