Journal
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 193, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.116960
Keywords
Organic Rankine cycle; Multiple ORCs; ORC layout; Performance analysis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51936001]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [19CX05002A]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the Chinese Taipei [MOST 108-2221-E-027-045-MY3]
- The Featured Areas Research Center Program
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The concept of multiple ORCs arrangement resembles playing a jigsaw puzzle, aiming to improve energy utilization by filling the temperature gap. Research shows that the performance improvement depends on the reasonable selection of working fluids and the layout of ORCs.
Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is an important method for waste heat recovery. However, there is a remarkable irreversible loss between ORC and heat source/sink, which reduces the performance in energy utilization. In this work, an innovative concept of multi-ORCs arrangement has been proposed for improving the energy utilization. The concept is something like playing the jigsaw puzzle. We have tried the best to fill the temperature gap between heat source and heat sink by multiple ORCs. According to the T-s diagram, the heating temperature of the working fluids paralleling to the temperature of heat source should be considered primarily. Based on the first and exergy laws, multi-ORCs arrangements and system thermo-economic analysis have been carried out for the given single-phase (hot air with 300 degrees C) and two-phase (saturated steam with 185 degrees C) heat source, respectively. For single-phase heat source, the net output/LCOE of three-ORCs and four-ORCs arrangements are 6789 kW/0.063 USD/kWh and 6627 kW/0.072 USD/kWh, respectively; for two-phase heat source, they are 5976 kW/0.069 USD/kWh and 6174 kW/0.068 USD/kWh respectively. This means that the performance improvement depends on the reasonable selection of working fluids and reasonable arrangement of the ORCs, and the thermodynamic and economic issues should be simultaneously considered. The research findings provide a new means for the ORC system optimization.
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