Southwest Research Institute built a power plant from the ground up, and its energy production is attracting attention.
Jonathan Wade, manager of the Power Cycle Machinery Section, is the project’s hands-on, day-to-day supervisor.“We’re compressing a fluid, we’re adding heat, and then we’re extracting that energy through, in this case, a turbine. Then we’re cooling it down,” he said. “And in this case, it’s a closed loop, so the same molecule, same CO2 molecules, are going around being compressed, having heat energy added into them.
“It’s also compatible with other renewable sources of heat, so advanced nuclear power plants are interested in this technology. Geothermal actually can use it too,” Allison said.
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