Optimal design of ORC systems with a low-temperature heat source

DOI10.3390/E14020370MaRDI QIDQ406000zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohammed Khennich, Nicolas Galanis

Publication date 8 September 2014

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3390/e14020370

zbMATH Keywords

renewable energysubcritical cycletrans-critical cyclewaste heatworking fluids R134aworking fluids R141b

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M50)

Review text

Summary: A numerical model of subcritical and trans-critical power cycles using a fixed-flowrate low-temperature heat source has been validated and used to calculate the combinations of the maximum cycle pressure \((\mathrm P_{\mathrm{ev}})\) and the difference between the source temperature and the maximum working fluid temperature (DT) which maximize the thermal efficiency \((\eta_{\mathrm{th}})\) or minimize the non-dimensional exergy losses \((\beta)\), the total thermal conductance of the heat exchangers \((\mathrm{UA}_{\mathrm t})\) and the turbine size (SP). Optimum combinations of \((\mathrm P_{\mathrm{ev}})\) and DT were calculated for each one of these four objective functions for two working fluids (R134a, R141b), three source temperatures and three values of the non-dimensional power output. The ratio of \((\mathrm{UA}_{\mathrm t})\) over the net power output (which is a first approximation of the initial cost per kW) shows that R141b is the better working fluid for the conditions under study.

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