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http://dx.doi.org/10.5916/jkosme.2014.38.3.276

The development of a preliminary designing program for ORC radial inflow turbines and the design of the radial inflow turbine for the OTEC  

Kim, Do-Yeop (Department of Marine System Engineering, Graduate School of Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Kang, Ho-Keun (Division of Marine System Engineering, Korea Marine and Ocean University)
Kim, You-Taek (Division of Marine System Engineering, Korea Marine and Ocean University)
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Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology / v.38, no.3, 2014 , pp. 276-284 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to establish the designing method of ORC(Organic Rankine Cycle) radial inflow turbines. RTDM(Radial Turbine Design Modeler) Ver.2.1 which is a preliminary design program of radial inflow turbines was developed to achieve this purpose. The 200kW-class radial inflow turbine for OTEC(Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) was designed by using the RTDM Ver.2.1 and CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation was performed to verify the accuracy of RTDM Ver.2.1. With the result of simulation, the accuracy of RTDM Ver.2.1 was almost 94.6% based on the designed total enthalpy drop of the radial inflow turbine. Strategy of adjusting the mass flow rate was adopted on this study to satisfy the requirements of its power and rotor outlet's conditions for the designed radial inflow turbine. The mass flow rate was consequently increased to 21.2 kg/s for the designed 200kW-class radial inflow turbine for OTEC, and then Total to total and Total to static efficiency are 89.8% and 85.36% respectively.
Keywords
ORC Radial Inflow Turbine; OTEC; Preliminary Design Program;
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