Thermo-economic optimization of waste heat recovery Organic Rankine Cycles
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In this paper, a sizing model of the ORC is proposed, capable of predicting the cycle performance with different working fluids and different components sizes, based on the thermodynamic and economic optimization of a small scale ORC in waste heat recovery application.About:
This article is published in Applied Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 613 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organic Rankine cycle & Working fluid.read more
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Techno-economic survey of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems
TL;DR: An overview of the different ORC applications is presented in this paper, and an in-depth analysis of the technical challenges related to the technology, such as working fluid selection and expansion machine issues, is reported.
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A review of working fluid and expander selections for organic Rankine cycle
Junjiang Bao,Li Zhao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of pure and mixture working fluids' applications and a discussion of all types of expansion machines' operating characteristics for an effective organic Rankine cycle system is presented.
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Review of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) architectures for waste heat recovery
TL;DR: An overview of ORC architectures can be found in this paper, where the performance evaluation criteria and boundary conditions are clearly stated, as well as an overview of the available experimental data is given.
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Review of organic Rankine cycles for internal combustion engine exhaust waste heat recovery
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the history of internal combustion engine exhaust waste heat recovery focusing on organic Rankine cycles is presented, with a focus on the selection of the cycle expander and working fluid, since they are regarded as having the largest impact on system performance.
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Binary ORC (Organic Rankine Cycles) power plants for the exploitation of medium–low temperature geothermal sources – Part B: Techno-economic optimization
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of ORC (Organic Rankine Cycles) for the exploitation of low-medium enthalpy geothermal brines is investigated. And an economic model was defined and implemented in the Matlab® code previously developed.
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