scholarly journals Thermo-Economic and Heat Transfer Optimization of Working-Fluid Mixtures in a Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle System

Energies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyeniyi Oyewunmi ◽  
Christos Markides
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Fluid Mixtures ◽  
Cycle System ◽  
Heat Transfer Optimization

Simulation of Solar Organic Rankine Cycle System Using Turbocharger with Cycle Tempo and Environmentally Friendly Fluid

2013 ◽  
Vol 388 ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruli Nutranta ◽  
Idrus Al Hamid ◽  
Nasruddin ◽  
B. Harinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Mechanical Energy ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Cycle System ◽  
Geothermal Wells ◽  
Temperature And Pressure ◽  
Cycle Temperature

Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a modified rankine cycle with working fluids, of organic material (Refrigerant). Refrigerant pentane has low boiling point, therefore ORC can be used in power plant which uses low temperature resources, such as solar thermal exhausted gases and geothermal wells. Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is used to convert heat energy into mechanical energy or electricity generated by a low temperature of the hot sun. The working fluid used is HCR12, HCR22, HCR134a and Pentane. Simulations performed with an organic Rankine cycle temperature and pressure with cycle tempo program. By programming the simulation cycle tempo and got the result on the maximum power a turbine to the conditions of the working fluid Pentane to the input turbine T = 700C and pressure = 2 bar can generate 2.07 kW. Turbocharger is one of the alternatives in the energy conversion of the energy of motion into electrical energy. Turbocharger rotation will be used to turn a generator and converts the energy of motion into electrical energy.

scholarly journals Thermodynamic, Economic and Sustainability Analysis of Solar Organic Rankine Cycle System with Zeotropic Working Fluid Mixtures for Micro-Cogeneration in Buildings

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7925
Author(s):  
Wahiba Yaïci ◽  
Evgueniy Entchev ◽  
Pouyan Talebizadehsardari ◽  
Michela Longo
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Optimum Operating ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Condensation Temperature ◽  
Fluid Mixtures ◽  
Thermodynamic Performance ◽  
Cycle Efficiency

Globally there are several viable sources of renewable, low-temperature heat (below 130 °C), particularly solar energy, geothermal energy, and energy generated from industrial wastes. Increased exploitation of these low-temperature options has the definite potential of reducing fossil fuel consumption with its attendant very harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers have universally identified the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) as a practicable and suitable system to generate electrical power from renewable sources based on its beneficial usage of volatile organic fluids as working fluids (WFs). In recent times, researchers have also shown a preference towards deployment of zeotropic mixtures as ORC WFs because of their capacity to improve thermodynamic performance of ORC systems, a feat enabled through the greater matching of the temperature profiles of the WF and the heat source/sink. This paper demonstrates the thermodynamic, economic and sustainability feasibility, and the notable advantages of using zeotropic mixtures as WFs through a simulation study of an ORC system. The study examines first the thermodynamic performance of ORC systems using zeotropic mixtures to generate electricity powered by a low-temperature solar heat source for building applications. A thermodynamic model is developed with a solar-driven ORC system both with and excluding a regenerator. Twelve zeotropic mixtures with varying compositions are evaluated and compared to identify the best combinations of mixtures that can yield high performance and high efficiency in their system cycles. The study also examines the effects of the volume flow ratio, and evaporation and condensation temperature glides on the ORC’s thermodynamic performance. Following a detailed analysis of each mixture, R245fa/propane and butane/propane are selected for parametric study to investigate the influence of operating parameters on the system’s efficiency and sustainability index. For zeotropic mixtures, results disclosed that there is an optimal composition range within which binary mixtures are inclined to perform more efficiently than the component pure fluids. In addition, a substantial enhancement in cycle efficiency can be obtained by a regenerative ORC, with cycle efficiency ranging between 3.1–9.8% and 8.6–17.4% for ORC both without and with regeneration, respectively. Results also revealed that exploiting zeotropic mixtures could enlarge the limitation experienced in selecting WFs for low-temperature solar ORCs. Moreover, a detailed economic with a sensitivity analysis of the solar ORC system was performed to evaluate the cost of the electricity and other economic criteria. The outcome of this investigation should be useful in the thermo-economic feasibility assessments of solar-driven ORC systems using working fluid mixtures to find the optimum operating range for maximum performance and minimum cost.

Selection of Working Fluids for Low-Temperature Power Generation Organic Rankine Cycles System

2012 ◽  
Vol 557-559 ◽  
pp. 1509-1513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong He Han ◽  
Yi Da Yu
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Heat Sources ◽  
Working Fluids ◽  
Cycle System ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycles ◽  
Organic Fluids ◽  
Cycle Efficiency

A Rankine cycle using organic fluids as working fluids, called organic Rankine cycle (ORC), is potentially feasible in recovering low enthalpy containing heat sources. The choices of fluids should meet the requirement of environment, safety, critical pressure and critical temperature etc. Under the proposed working conditions, R600a, R245fa, R236fa, R236ea, R227ea are chosen as the working fluids of the low-temperature Rankine cycle system, then those fluids are investigated and compared from cycle efficiency, work ratio, exergy efficiency, irreversible loss. The results show that R245fa is an available and effective working fluid for low-temperature Rankine cycle.

Calculation and Optimization of Heat Transfer between the Low Exergy Heat Source and Organic Rankine Cycle Applied to Heat Recovery Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 597 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Sławomir Smoleń ◽  
Hendrik Boertz
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Optimization Procedure ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Total System

One of the key challenges on the area of energy engineering is the system development for increasing the efficiency of primary energy conversion and use. An effective and important measure suitable for improving efficiencies of existing applications and allowing the extraction of energy from previously unsuitable sources is the Organic Rankine Cycle. Applications based on this cycle allow the use of low temperature energy sources such as waste heat from industrial applications, geothermal sources, biomass, fired power plants and micro combined heat and power systems.Working fluid selection is a major step in designing heat recovery systems based on the Organic Rankine Cycle. Within the framework of the previous original study a special tool has been elaborated in order to compare the influence of different working fluids on performance of an ORC heat recovery power plant installation. A database of a number of organic fluids has been developed. The elaborated tool should create a support by choosing an optimal working fluid for special applications and become a part of a bigger optimization procedure by different frame conditions. The main sorting criterion for the fluids is the system efficiency (resulting from the thermo-physical characteristics) and beyond that the date base contains additional information and criteria, which have to be taken into account, like environmental characteristics for safety and practical considerations.The presented work focuses on the calculation and optimization procedure related to the coupling heat source – ORC cycle. This interface is (or can be) a big source of energy but especially exergy losses. That is why the optimization of the heat transfer between the heat source and the process is (besides the ORC efficiency) of essential importance for the total system efficiency.Within the presented work the general calculation approach and some representative calculation results have been given. This procedure is a part of a complex procedure and program for Working Fluid Selection for Organic Rankine Cycle Applied to Heat Recovery Systems.

Exergoeconomic comparison and optimization of organic Rankine cycle, trilateral Rankine cycle and transcritical carbon dioxide cycle for heat recovery of low-temperature geothermal water

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 (8) ◽  
pp. 1068-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Noroozian ◽  
Abbas Naeimi ◽  
Mokhtar Bidi ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Cost Ratio ◽  
Exergetic Efficiency ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
Product Cost

Depleting fossil fuel resources and the horrible environmental impacts due to burning fossil fuels emphasize the importance of using renewable energy resources such as geothermal and solar energies. This paper compares performance of CO2 transcritical cycle, organic Rankine cycle, and trilateral Rankine cycle using a low-temperature geothermal heat source. Thermodynamic analysis, exergetic analysis, economic analysis, and exergoeconomic analysis are applied for each of the aforementioned cycles. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is performed on the system, and the effects of geothermal heat source temperature, evaporator pinch point temperature, and turbine inlet pressure on the cycle's performance are evaluated. Finally, the systems are optimized in order to minimize product cost ratio and maximize exergetic efficiency by using the genetic algorithm. Results indicate that the maximum thermal efficiency is approximately 13.03% which belongs to organic Rankine cycle with R123 as working fluid. CO2 cycle has the maximum exergetic efficiency, equals to 46.13%. The minimum product cost ratio refers to the organic Rankine cycle with R245fa as working fluid. Moreover, sensitivity analysis shows that increasing geothermal heat source temperature results in higher output power, product cost ratio, and exergy destruction ratio in all cycles.

Matching and operating characteristics of working fluid pumps with organic Rankine cycle system

2018 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 622-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Yang ◽  
Hongguang Zhang ◽  
Yonghong Xu ◽  
Fubin Yang ◽  
Yuting Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Cycle System

Performance Investigation of Solar Organic Rankine Cycle Systems With and Without Regeneration and With Zeotropic Working Fluid Mixtures for Use in Micro-Cogeneration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahiba Yaïci ◽  
Evgueniy Entchev ◽  
Pouyan Talebizadeh Sardari
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Organic Rankine Cycle ◽  
Rankine Cycle ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Condensation Temperature ◽  
Thermodynamic Performance ◽  
Cycle Efficiency

Abstract Globally there are several viable sources of renewable, low-temperature heat (below 130°C) particularly solar energy, geothermal energy, and energy generated from industrial wastes. Increased exploitation of these low-temperature options has the definite potential of reducing fossil fuel consumption with its attendant very harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers have universally identified the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) as a practicable and promising system to generate electrical power from renewable sources based on its beneficial use of volatile organic fluids as working fluids (WFs). In recent times, researchers have also shown a preference for/an inclination towards deployment of zeotropic mixtures as ORC WFs because of their capacity to improve thermodynamic performance of ORC systems, a feat enabled by better matches of the temperature profiles of the WF and the heat source/sink. This paper demonstrates both the technical feasibility and the notable advantages of using zeotropic mixtures as WFs through a simulation study of an ORC system. The study examines the thermodynamic performance of ORC systems using zeotropic WF mixtures to generate electricity driven by low-temperature solar heat source for building applications. A thermodynamic model is developed with an ORC system both with and excluding a regenerator. Five zeotropic mixtures with varying compositions of R245fa/propane, R245fa/hexane, R245fa/heptane, pentane/hexane and isopentane/hexane are evaluated and compared to identify the best combinations of WF mixtures that can yield high efficiency in their system cycles. The study also investigates the effects of the volumetric flow ratio, and evaporation and condensation temperature glides on the ORC’s thermodynamic performance. Following a detailed analysis of each mixture, R245fa/propane is selected for parametric study to examine the effects of operating parameters on the system’s efficiency and sustainability index. For zeotropic mixtures, results showed that there is an optimal composition range within which binary mixtures are inclined to perform more efficiently than the component pure fluids. In addition, a significant increase in cycle efficiency can be achieved with a regenerative ORC, with cycle efficiency ranging between 3.1–9.8% and 8.6–17.4% for ORC both without and with regeneration, respectively. Results also showed that exploiting zeotropic mixtures could enlarge the limitation experienced in selecting WFs for low-temperature solar organic Rankine cycles.

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