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ENERGY
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages 396-416Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.017
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Heat integration; Heat recovery; ORC; Internal combustion engine; Zeotropic mixtures
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This paper addresses the optimal working fluid selection for organic Rankine cycle recovering heat from heavy-duty internal combustion engines. Four cases are considered featuring two different engine exhaust temperatures (245 degrees C vs 354 degrees C) and two scenarios (maximum recovery of mechanical power vs. cogeneration of low-temperature heat). The analysis includes both pure fluids, including recently synthesized refrigerants, and binary mixtures. To perform a fair comparison between the different fluids, a computationally efficient cycle optimization approach, able to determine the maximum achievable efficiency for each working fluid, is adopted. The approach combines the evolutionary optimization algorithm PGS-COM with a rigorous heat integration methodology. The most efficient fluids are HCFO-1233zde, HFE-245fa2, HFO-1336mzz, HFE-347mcc, HFE-245cb2 and Novec 649 for the engine with lower temperature exhausts (reaching an ORC mechanical efficiency of 18.6-19.9%), and cyclopentane, ammonia, HCFO-1233zde, HFE-245fa2, HFO-1366mzz for the engine with higher temperature (reaching 23.76-22.70% efficiency). Compared to pure fluids, the use of optimized binary mixtures does not appear to lead a considerable efficiency gain. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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