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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd A small-scale pumpless Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system driven by the low temperature heat source is established to investigate the overall performance. Hot water temperature from 75 °C to 95 °C is adopted for performance analysis whereas the environmental temperature is about 25 °C. Refrigerant R245fa is selected as working fluid, and scroll expander is employed for power generation. One worth noting fact is that pumpless ORC system shows great potential for low temperature heat recovery. Experimental results indicate that the maximum power output is 232 W, which is obtained at 95 °C hot water inlet temperature. Correspondingly, the average power output is 204 W which is lasted for 6.6 min, revealing the high stability for power generation. For different hot water inlet temperature, the highest energy and exergy efficiency of the system are 2.4% and 13.7%. Besides, performance of novel pumpless ORC system is compared with that of our previous prototype. It shows a remarkable improvement in terms of power output, energy efficiency and exergy efficiency. Power generation process is able to keep constant for 95% of the cycle time. As a result, pumpless ORC may become an alternative solution to low grade heat utilization when compared with conventional small-scale ORC.
Author(s): Jiang L, Lu HT, Wang LW, Gao P, Zhu FQ, Wang RZ, Roskilly AP
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Applied Energy
Year: 2017
Volume: 195
Pages: 478-486
Print publication date: 01/06/2017
Online publication date: 24/03/2017
Acceptance date: 17/03/2017
Date deposited: 24/05/2017
ISSN (print): 0306-2619
ISSN (electronic): 1872-9118
Publisher: Pergamon Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.03.082
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.03.082
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