Systematic Methods for Working Fluid Selection and the Design, Integration and Control of Organic Rankine Cycles—A Review

Efficient power generation from low to medium grade heat is an important challenge to be addressed to ensure a sustainable energy future. Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) constitute an important enabling technology and their research and development has emerged as a very active research field over the...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 4755 - 4801
Main Authors Linke, Patrick, Papadopoulos, Athanasios, Seferlis, Panos
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 01.06.2015
Subjects
design
optimisation
organic Rankine cycle
systematic approaches
working fluid selection
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Summary:Efficient power generation from low to medium grade heat is an important challenge to be addressed to ensure a sustainable energy future. Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) constitute an important enabling technology and their research and development has emerged as a very active research field over the past decade. Particular focus areas include working fluid selection and cycle design to achieve efficient heat to power conversions for diverse hot fluid streams associated with geothermal, solar or waste heat sources. Recently, a number of approaches have been developed that address the systematic selection of efficient working fluids as well as the design, integration and control of ORCs. This paper presents a review of emerging approaches with a particular emphasis on computer-aided design methods.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en8064755