Energy and Exergy Analysis of an Organic Rankine Cycle Using Different Working Fluids from Waste Heat Recovery

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 32 - 45, 27.12.2017

Esra Özdemir , Muhsin Kılıç

Abstract

In this study, the energy and
exergy analysis of organic Rankine cycle is performed for different dry working
fluids which are R600a, R600, R245fa, R123 and R113. The organic Rankine
cycle's performance parameters are evaluated depending on varied evaporation
temperatures and the inlet temperatures of the waste hot fluid. Results show that the best performance results are obtained for R600a considering the
thermal efficiency, exergy efficiency, net power and lower total
irreversibility at the evaluations of
both the increment of the evaporation temperature and the increment of the
inlet temperature of waste hot fluid.

Keywords

Energy, exergy, organic Rankine cycle, working fluid

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