Design of Radial Turbo-Expanders for Small Organic Rankine Cycle System

7th International Conference on Cooling & Heating Technologies

材料科学;物理学

Arifin, M.^1,2 ; Pasek, A.D.^1

Research Centre for Electrical Power and Mechatronics, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, LIPI Komp. LIPI Gd.20, Jl. Cisitu No.21/154D, Bandung Jawa Barat

4015, Indonesia^1

Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institute Technology Bandung, Jl. Ganesha No.10 Taman Sari, Bandung Jawa Barat

41032, Indonesia^2

关键词: Inlet pressures;    Inlet temperature;    Mass flow rate;    Operating condition;    Organic Rankine cycles;    Shear-stress transport;    Steady-state condition;    Working fluid;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/88/1/012037/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/88/1/012037

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses the design of radial turbo-expanders for ORC systems. Firstly, the rotor blades were design and the geometry and the perfromance were calculated using several working fluid such as R134a, R143a, R245fa, n-Pentane, and R123. Then, a numerical study was carried out in the fluid flow area with R134a and R123 as the working fluid. Analyses were performed using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) ANSYS CFX on two real gas models, with the k-epsilon and SST (shear stress transport) turbulence models. The results analysis shows the distribution of Mach number, pressure, velocity and temperature along the rotor blade of the radial turbo-expanders and estimation of performance at various operating conditions. CFD analysis show that if the flow area divided into 250,000 grid mesh, and using real gas model SST at steady state condition, 0.4 kg/s of mass flow rate, 15,000 rpm rotor speed, 5 bar inlet pressure, and 373K inlet temperature, the turbo expander produces 6.7 kW, and 5.5 kW of power when using R134a and R123 respectively.