• 신재생에너지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2023

The necessity of energy utilization using livestock manure has been proposed with the decrease in domestic agricultural land. Livestock manure solid fuel has been investigated as a promising energy resource owing to its convenient storage and use in agricultural and livestock fields. Additional electricity production is possible through the integration of a biomass combustion boiler with the organic Rankine cycle (ORC). In this study, a mathematical system model of the cattle manure solid fuel boiler integrated with the ORC was developed to analyze the components' performance under variable operating conditions. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to confirm the electrical efficiency of the ORC turbine and the applicability of this system. The minimum required waste heat recovery rate was derived considering the system marginal price and levelized cost of electricity of the ORC. The simulation results showed that, in Korea, more than 77.98% of waste heat recovery and utilization in ORC turbines is required to achieve economic feasibility through ORC application.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2012

Optimization procedures of performance analysis for ORC(Organic Rankine Cycle) system are established to the characteristics of low temperature heat sources such as open-type and closed-type. Effective heat recovery and heat extraction related to maximum power of the cycle as well as heat quality and thermal efficiency must be considered in the case of the open-type low temperature heat source. On the other hand, in the case of the closed-type low temperature heat source, only thermal efficiency is important due to constant heat input. In this study, thermal efficiency and exergy efficiency representing a level of close to Carnot cycle are studied, as useful index for the optimization of the ORC system. To validate the results of cycle analysis, those are compared with appropriate experimental data of ORC system as a thermal efficiency point of view.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) has been used to generate electrical or mechanical power from low-grade thermal energy. Usually, this thermal energy is not supplied continuously at the constant thermal energy level. In order to optimally utilize fluctuating thermal energy, an axial-type turbine was applied to the expander of ORC and two supersonic nozzle were used to control the mass flow rate. Experiment was conducted with various turbine inlet temperatures (TIT) with the partial admission rate of 16.7 %. The tip diameter of rotor was to be 80 mm. In the cycle analysis, the output power of ORC was predicted with considering the load dissipating the output power produced from the ORC as well as the turbine efficiency. The predicted results showed the same trend as the experimental results, and the experimental results showed that the system efficiency of 2 % was obtained at the TIT of $100^{\circ}C$.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.377-385
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• 2015

This paper presents a thermodynamic performance analysis of regenerative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) using turbine bleeding to utilize low-grade finite thermal energy. Refrigerant R245fa was selected as the working fluid. Special attention is paid to the effects of the turbine bleeding pressure and the turbine bleed fraction on the thermodynamic performance of the system such as net power production and thermal efficiency. Results show that the thermal efficiency has an optimum value with respect to the turbine bleeding pressure and the net power production is lower than the basic ORC while the thermal efficiency is higher.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.234-241
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• 2020

This paper presents a thermodynamic performance analysis of a combined cycle consisting of regenerative organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) Rankine cycle to recover low-grade heat source and the cold energy of LNG. The mathematical models are developed and the system performances are analyzed in the aspect of thermodynamics. The effects of the turbine inlet pressure and the working fluid on the system performance such as the mass flow rates, heat transfers at heat exchangers, power productions at turbines, and thermal efficiency are systematically investigated. The results show that the thermodynamic performance of ORC such as net power production and thermal efficiency can be significantly improved by the regenerative ORC and the LNG cold energy.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2015

스크롤 팽창기의 성능특성은 유기랭킨사이클 (ORC) 시스템의 성능에 가장 중요한 변수이다. 본 연구에서는 1kW급 ORC 시스템을 구성하여 다양한 작동 조건에서 스크롤 팽창기의 성능특성을 파악하였다. ORC 시스템은 증발기, 스크롤 팽창기, 응축기, 작동유체펌프로 구성되어 있으며, 작동유체로 R245fa를 사용하였다. 고온수 온도는 50kW급 전기히터에 의해 $80^{\circ}C$에서 $115^{\circ}C$까지 제어되었다. 스크롤 팽창기의 최대 등엔트로피 효율은 77%로 측정되었고, ORC 시스템의 축동력은 열원의 온도 조건 및 팽창기의 회전속도에 따라 0.5kW에서 1.8kW까지 측정되었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.64-70
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• 2015

Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is an useful cycle for power generation system with low temperature heat sources ($80{\sim}400^{\circ}C$). Since the boiling point of operating fluid is low, the system is used to recover the low temperature heat source of waste heat energy. In this study, a ORC with R134a is applied to recover the waste energy of condenser of coal fired power plant. A system model is developed via Thermolib$^{(R)}$ under Simulink/MATLAB environment. The model is composed of a refrigerant heat exchanger for heat recovery from coal fired condenser, a drum, turbine, heat exchanger for ORC heat rejection, storage tank, water recirculation pump and water drip pump. System analysis parameters were heat recovery capacity, type of refrigerants, and types of turbines. The simulation model is used to analyze the heat recovery capacity of ORC power system. As a result, increasing the overall heat transfer coefficient to become the largest of turbine power is the most economical.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.839-845
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 CO₂ 가스 배출 저감 및 선박 폐열 회수 증대를 목적으로 선박 배기로 버려지는 폐열을 전기로 변환하는 ORC(Organic Rankine Cycle) 발전에 대해 시뮬레이션을 통한 냉매별 효율을 보여주고 있다. 상대적으로 고온인 배기가스의 폐열과 상대적으로 저온인 냉각해수를 이용하여 Aspen HYSYS 11을 이용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 해수냉각 ORC 발전시스템의 시뮬레이션 결과, 작동유체 효율은 R717 냉매가 2.86 %로 가장 높았고, 다음 순으로 R152a, R134a, R143a, R125a로 나타났다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2014

Exploitation of renewable energies is on the increase to mitigate the reliance on fossil fuels and other natural gases with rocketing prices currently due to the depletion of their reserves not to mention their diverse consequences on the environment. Divergently, there are lots of industries "throwing" heat at higher temperatures as by products into the environment. This waste heat can be recovered through organic Rankine systems and converted to electrical energy with a waste heat recovery organic Rankine cycle system (WHR-ORC). This study uses the annual average condenser effluent from Namhae power plant as heat source and surface seawater as cooling source to analyze a waste heat recovery organic Rankine cycle using the Aspen HYSYS simulation software package. Hydrocarbon mixtures are employed as working fluid and varied in a ratio of 9:1. Results indicate that Pentane/Isobutane (90/10) mixture is the favorable working fluid for optimizing the waste heat recovery organic Rankine cycle at the set simulation conditions.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.208-215
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• 2013

An experimental study of an ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) system has been performed for small-scale applications in the range of a few kW for low-grade-recovery heat sources. The ORC system was equipped with a scroll expander. Experimental tests were carried out using this system, and showed good performance and reliability for the small-scale system. The effects of various operating conditions were selected as the main parameters for the performance of ORC system, such as the expander speeds and mass flow rates of R-134a for expander inlet temperatures ranging from $100^{\circ}C$ to $190^{\circ}C$, as well as the thermal power, thermal efficiency, expansion efficiency, and volumetric efficiency.