Performance of a 5kWe Organic Rankine Cycle at part-load operation

Applied Energy

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-158

  Ibarra, Mercedes ^a   Rovira, Antonio ^b   Alarcón Padilla, Diego César ^a   Blanco, Julián ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Off design modeling; Organic Rankine Cycle; Scroll expander; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

THERMOANALYSIS;

ISENTROPIC EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; OFF DESIGNS; ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE(ORC); ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLES; PART LOAD OPERATION; SCROLL EXPANDER; THERMAL EFFICIENCY;

RANKINE CYCLE;

DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; THERMAL POWER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84894051689     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.057     Document Type: Article

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