Experimental study and modeling of an Organic Rankine Cycle using scroll expander

[en] This paper presents both a numerical model of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and an experimental study carried out on a prototype working with refrigerant HCFC-123, and whose heat sources consist in two hot air flows. The ORC model is built by interconnecting different sub-models: the heat exchanger models, a volumetric pump model and a scroll expander model. Measured performance of the ORC prototype is presented and used to validate the ORC model. This model is finally used to investigate potential improvements of the prototype.

Disciplines :

Mechanical engineering

Author, co-author :

Quoilin, Sylvain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Systèmes Energétiques

Lemort, Vincent ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Turbomachines et propulsion aérospatiale

Lebrun, Jean ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique

Language :

English

Title :

Experimental study and modeling of an Organic Rankine Cycle using scroll expander

Publication date :

April 2010

Journal title :

Applied Energy

ISSN :

0306-2619

eISSN :

1872-9118

Publisher :

Elsevier Science

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

1260-1268

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