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PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL OF ORC ARCHITECTURES FOR WASTE HEAT RECOVERY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS


Go-down asme-orc2015 Tracking Number 56

Presentation:
Session: Session 18: Advanced architectures
Room: 1A Europe
Session start: 14:00 Wed 14 Oct 2015

Steven Lecompte   steven.lecompte@ugent.be
Affifliation: UGent

Martijn van den Broek   Martijn.vandenBroek@UGent.be
Affifliation: UGent

Michel De Paepe   Michel.DePaepe@ugent.be
Affifliation: UGent


Topics: - System Design and Optimization (Topics), - I prefer Oral Presentation (Presentation Preference)

Abstract:

The subcritical ORC (SCORC), sometimes with addition of a recuperator, is the de facto state of the art technology in the current market. However architectural changes and operational modifications have the potential to improve the base system. The ORC architectures investigated in this work are: the transcritical ORC (TCORC), the triangular cycle (TLC) and the partial evaporation ORC (PEORC). Assessing the potential of these cycles is a challenging topic and is brought down to two steps. First, the expected thermodynamic improvement is quantified by optimizing the second law efficiency. Secondly, the influences of technical constraints concerning volumetric expanders are investigated. In the first step, simple regression models are formulated based on an extensive set of boundary conditions. In addition a subset of environmentally friendly working fluids is separately analysed. In the second step, two cases are investigated with the help of a multi-objective optimization technique. The results of this optimization are compared with the first step. As such the effect of each design decision is quantified and analysed, making the results of this work especially interesting for manufacturers of ORC systems.