Systematic methods for working fluid selection and the design, integration and control of organic Rankine cycles—A review

P Linke, AI Papadopoulos, P Seferlis - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
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 …

A review of recent research on the use of zeotropic mixtures in power generation systems

A Modi, F Haglind - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of zeotropic fluid mixtures in refrigeration cycles and heat pumps has been widely
studied in the last three decades or so. However it is only in the past few years that the use …

Low grade waste heat recovery with subcritical and supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle based on natural refrigerants and their binary mixtures

K Braimakis, M Preißinger, D Brüggemann, S Karellas… - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a promising technology for low temperature
waste heat-to-power conversion. This work investigates the waste heat recovery potential of …

Toward optimum working fluid mixtures for organic Rankine cycles using molecular design and sensitivity analysis

AI Papadopoulos, M Stijepovic, P Linke… - Industrial & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
This work presents a Computer-Aided Molecular Design (CAMD) method for the synthesis
and selection of binary working fluid mixtures used in Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC). The …

Exergoeconomic analysis and optimization of single and double flash cycles for Sabalan geothermal power plant

SM Bina, S Jalilinasrabady, H Fujii - Geothermics, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study single and double flash systems were designed to utilize the Sabalan
geothermal fluid as a heat source. An Exergoeconomic model was applied on …

Thermo-economic evaluation of organic Rankine cycles for geothermal power generation using zeotropic mixtures

F Heberle, D Brüggemann - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
We present a thermo-economic evaluation of binary power plants based on the Organic
Rankine Cycle (ORC) for geothermal power generation. The focus of this study is to analyse …

Thermo-economic evaluation of various bottoming ORCs for geothermal power plant, determination of optimum cycle for Sabalan power plant exhaust

SM Bina, S Jalilinasrabady, H Fujii - Geothermics, 2017 - Elsevier
Thermo-Economic analysis was applied to four different arrangements of Organic Rankine
Cycle, using dry organic fluid as working fluid. These cycles were designed to use the …

Investigation of the thermoeconomic improvement of integrating enhanced geothermal single flash with transcritical organic Rankine cycle

NH Mokarram, AH Mosaffa - Energy Conversion and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
In this research, the integration of an enhanced single flash geothermal cycle with a
transcritical organic Rankine cycle (TORC) is proposed. To discover the feasibility and …

HFOs as substitute for R-134a as working fluids in ORC power plants: A thermodynamic assessment and thermal stability analysis

CM Invernizzi, P Iora, M Preißinger… - Applied Thermal …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the potential replacement of HFC-134a in ORC applications by
two low-GWP refrigerant fluids, namely HFO-1234yf and HFO-1234ze (E). After revising and …

Simulation and experiments on an ORC system with different scroll expanders based on energy and exergy analysis

P Gao, L Jiang, LW Wang, RZ Wang… - Applied Thermal …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract An Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) with a scroll expander with varying displacement
is studied. First, to obtain the isentropic efficiency of the scroll expander modified from an …