TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation on improvement potential of ORC system off-design performance by expander speed regulation based on theoretical and experimental exergy-energy analyses
AU - Dong, Shengming
AU - Hu, Xiaowei
AU - Huang, Jun Fang
AU - Zhu, Tingting
AU - Zhang, Yufeng
AU - Li, Xiang
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation (No. 18JCQNJC77400 , 18JCYBJC90500 ) and Tianjin University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (No. 201910069057 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - In this paper, the potential of expander speed regulation for optimization of ORC system adaptability to off-design working conditions has been explored through experiments. According to the obtained results, it has been found that there existed two different optimal speeds: optimal power speed (rop), optimal efficiency speed (roee/rote) which could endow the ORC system with maximum output power or highest thermoelectric/exergy efficiency. For working conditions of tw = 70, 73, 80 °C, power of expander at rop has been increased by 199.1%, 137.4%, 6.5% compared with the power output at design speed (rds). The thermoelectric efficiency at rote was 11.1%, 27.7% higher than that at rop and rds. To further investigate the influences of expander speed on the performance, energy and exergy analyses were conducted based on theoretical calculation and experiment results within the range of 400–1600 r/min. The results showed that actual exergy destruction of expander and working fluid pump was closely related to expander speed. Gaps between theoretical and actual exergy destruction rates proved that optimization of expander and working fluid pump would be more effective for the ORC system performance.
AB - In this paper, the potential of expander speed regulation for optimization of ORC system adaptability to off-design working conditions has been explored through experiments. According to the obtained results, it has been found that there existed two different optimal speeds: optimal power speed (rop), optimal efficiency speed (roee/rote) which could endow the ORC system with maximum output power or highest thermoelectric/exergy efficiency. For working conditions of tw = 70, 73, 80 °C, power of expander at rop has been increased by 199.1%, 137.4%, 6.5% compared with the power output at design speed (rds). The thermoelectric efficiency at rote was 11.1%, 27.7% higher than that at rop and rds. To further investigate the influences of expander speed on the performance, energy and exergy analyses were conducted based on theoretical calculation and experiment results within the range of 400–1600 r/min. The results showed that actual exergy destruction of expander and working fluid pump was closely related to expander speed. Gaps between theoretical and actual exergy destruction rates proved that optimization of expander and working fluid pump would be more effective for the ORC system performance.
KW - Energy-exergy analysis
KW - Expander speed
KW - Off-design condition
KW - Organic rankine cycle
KW - exergy destruction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2021.119753
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2021.119753
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099258416
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 220
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
M1 - 119753
ER -