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Kalina cycle promises improved efficiency

Modern power systemsPublished 1 January 1987
A. I. Kalina, H. M. Leibowitz
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Abstract

The Kalina cycle offers an efficiency improvement of 20 to 30 per cent over the Rankine cycle for power generation. It uses a working fluid consisting of a mixture of ammonia and water. A 6.5 MW prototype system has been designed to prove the concept.

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Engineering