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    Brayton Energy has decades of experience designing and testing heat exchangers for gas turbine applications from the 1980s to present. Their work has included recuperators for automotive gas turbines, stationary gas turbines, microturbines, naval ship propulsion systems, and nuclear power plants. Through numerous projects, Brayton has addressed challenges with leakage, seal wear, low cycle fatigue, creep, manufacturing processes, and thermal cycling. Their recent designs have achieved more compact, durable, and lower cost recuperators through lessons learned from prior programs and extensive analysis and testing.

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    Brayton Energy has decades of experience designing and testing heat exchangers for gas turbine applications from the 1980s to present. Their work has included recuperators for automotive gas turbines, stationary gas turbines, microturbines, naval ship propulsion systems, and nuclear power plants. Through numerous projects, Brayton has addressed challenges with leakage, seal wear, low cycle fatigue, creep, manufacturing processes, and thermal cycling. Their recent designs have achieved more compact, durable, and lower cost recuperators through lessons learned from prior programs and extensive analysis and testing.

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    Brayton Energy has decades of experience designing and testing heat exchangers for gas turbine applications from the 1980s to present. Their work has included recuperators for automotive gas turbines, stationary gas turbines, microturbines, naval ship propulsion systems, and nuclear power plants. Through numerous projects, Brayton has addressed challenges with leakage, seal wear, low cycle fatigue, creep, manufacturing processes, and thermal cycling. Their recent designs have achieved more compact, durable, and lower cost recuperators through lessons learned from prior programs and extensive analysis and testing.

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    Recuperator/ Regenerator History Chart

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    Date Heat Exchanger Project Application Brayton Energy’s staff experience

    1980’s Automotive gas turbine engines (AGT- Measured serious leakage and seal ware while working on DoE engine integration
    Rotating regenerators
    100 Allied Signal) projects.
    1980-82 Developed a novel periodic (valved) switching device for stationary regenerator
    modules. Though very large by comparison with rotating regenerators, the system
    Periodic regenerators Stationary gas turbines
    eliminated seal leakage. Gas turbine integration, control problems, and valve
    galling remain problems.
    1980’s
    Furnace brazed monolithic Early microturbines (Lockheed- Performed detailed stress and life analysis of the Allied Signal product. Testing of
    plate-fin (Allied Signal) Sanders) and marine (WR21) the GT601 recuperator revealed serious LCF limitations.

    1988-92
    Early microturbines (Lockheed Performed detailed stress and life analysis of the Solar’s recup.. Testing of the
    Solar Turbine’s PSHS
    Sanders and NREC) recuperator revealed serious creep and fatigue limitations.

    1992 In attempt to improve upon the Allied Signal design, the team worked with
    Furnace brazed monolithic LIMCO, an industrial heat exchanger manufacturer, performing FEA and rigorous
    Early microturbines (NREC)
    plate-fin (LIMCO) testing. The results were similar to that experienced with the Allied Signal recups –
    LCF and cracking problems persisted.
    1980-1992 Working for Lycoming, staff engineers participated in durability improvements,
    US Main Battle Tank (Lycoming, and
    AGT1500 Recuperator production support, and development of advanced modular variant. This recup was
    early NREC microturbines)
    installed and tested on the early NREC/IR microturbine.
    1992-2006 Our staff engineers led this advanced and successful microturbine recup
    development program, from early concept to full manufacturing production. The
    design solved numerous problems highlighted in the past programs (above),
    MT70 Recuperator Ingersoll-Rand 70KW Microturbine
    creating a strain-tolerant highly durable product. This required years of analysis
    and testing at component and system levels. The design also represented a break-
    through in high-volume manufacturing.
    1999-2006 Our staff engineers had key rolls in this scale-up of the MT-70 recup. The product
    MT250 Recuperator Ingersoll-Rand 250KW Microturbine
    development program some new stress and manufacturing issues.
    1996-2006 Our staff engineers had key rolls in this scale-up of the MT-70 recup. Analysis and
    Rolls-Royce 22MW Intercooled and
    testing for this extremely harsh thermal cycling environment provided the basis for
    WR21 ICR Recuperator Recuperated Gas Turbine, Royal Navy
    a solid understanding of the interrelated issues involving thermal fatigue,
    Type 45 Destroyer
    metallurgy, and manufacturing processes.
    2001-2002 Turbomeca 1.8MW Gas Turbine This uses the WR21 core, introducing new challenges with engine packaging and
    TM1800 Recuperator
    Generator - Royal Navy aerodynamics.
    1998-1999 This was an integration of the MT-70 recup with a Kawasaki gas turbine. The
    KHI-700 recup Industrial gas turbine (700kWe) integration into an existing engine proved to be expensive and incurred significant
    losses while introducing new package-related failure mechanisms.
    1998-2004 Brayton developed and performed manufacturing process characterization of this
    Closed-Cycle He-HE Power
    large multi-core recuperator. The design incorporates the best technology from our
    PBMR Recuperator Conversion for Pebble-Bed Modular
    2005-2007 past experiences, yielding a exceptionally compact, and cost effective design. The
    Reactor (Civilian Nuclear Power)
    customer’s durability criteria were met by a wide margin.
    2005-2007 Intermediate Heat Exchanger for Gas- This exceptionally high-temperature heat exchanger (IHX), subjected to extreme
    Areva IHX
    Cooled Nuclear Power Plant thermal transients was analyzed and evaluated with nuclear safety codes.
    2004-2008 SolarCAT & NGMT gas Solar/hybrid gas, stationary and Brayton’s newest recup product lowers cost, and is more compact and durable than
    turbines vehicular gas turbines current microturbine recuperators.
    2008-2009 800 to 900 C gas temps from an This very high temp recuperator is manufactured from ODS alloys, incorporating
    Indirect cycle HX
    indirect (biomass) fired has turbine features to enable long life in a corrosive environment prone to fouling.

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