Combined Cycle Engines

Basics

• Any engines that use two or more types of heat engine to produce the one output
• This can be done to
  • Allow for variable fuel/energy sources (Natural Gas and/or Solar Thermal (Integrated Solar Combined Cycle ISCC )
  • Allows for increased efficiency (An ICE with a Turboexpander on it's exhaust stream and a Stirling Engine for vehicles is a good example)
• Not to be confused with Cogeneration

Notes on Naming Scheme

• This page may need a better name (ie one without "engines" in the title), as TEGs don't make mechanical power, but electrical, so that may be confusing to some
  • Although they are Heat Engines i think, so this really gets into Terminology Hell
• As of now the abbreviation would be "CCE"
• For powerplant applications it is often called "Combined Cycle Power Plant" (CCPP), and has specialty abbreviations ("CCGT" for Combined Cycle Gas Turbine etc)
• Combined Cycle Energy Generators (CCEG) (Could be pronounced C-Keg) may work?)

Internal Links

• Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
• High Temperature Fuel Cell Combined Cycle
• Cogeneration
• UBU
• Waste Heat Recovery / Heat Recovery Steam Generator

External Links

• Wikipedia Page on Combined Cycle Power Plants