Organic Rankine Cycle: Effective Applications and Technological Advances

Modeling and simulation of small-scale Organic Rankine Cycle

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) heat engine constitutes a very promising technology to recover waste heat (for instance from industry or from internal combustion engines) but also to exploit renewable energy sources (such as solar, biomass or geothermal energy). This seminar will emphasize how modeling and simulation tools could be used during the design stage of an ORC system in order to best ...

Thermodynamic performance of new thermofluidic feed pumps for Organic Rankine Cycle applications

This study develops thermofluidic pump technology that is powered by heat, rather than by electrical or mechanical power. The objective is to improve the performance of heat-recovery by Organic Rankine Cycles, by using a recently-proposed thermofluidic pump. The thermofluidic pump promises low-cost, high-reliability, and, since it does not consume any of the power produced by the expander, impr...

An Alaska case study: Organic Rankine cycle technology

Selection of the optimum prime mover and the working fluid in a regenerative organic rankine cycle

A regenerative organic Rankine cycle (RORC) is modeled and optimized for the use of waste heat recovery from a prime mover (PM). Three PMs including, a diesel engine, a gas engine, and a microturbine are selected in this study. Four refrigerants including isobutane, R123, R134a, and R245fa are selected. The nominal capacity of the PM, PM operating partial load, turbine inlet pressure, condenser...

Development of a Low Temperature Geothermal Organic Rankine Cycle Standard

Low temperature geothermal systems are an abundant energy resource in New Zealand with over 260 sites with a resource temperature of 150°C and lower. The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is the standard process for low temperature energy conversion with commercial ORCs utilizing temperatures as low as 90°C, with one site at Chena, Alaska (discussed below) utilizing temperatures as low as 74°C. The a...