Influence of Superheated Vapour in Organic Rankine Cycles with Working Fluid R123 Utilizing Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources

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Witold Glowacz¹  Adam Glowacz¹  Taufik²  Muhammad Irfan³  Wahyu Caesarendra⁴  Totok Prasetyo⁵  MochamadDenny Surindra⁵ 

[1] Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland;

[2] Electrical Engineering Department, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA;

[3] Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University Saudi Arabia, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia;

[4] Faculty of Integrated Technologies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei;

[5] Mechanical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Semarang, Semarang 50275, Indonesia;

关键词: superheated vapour;    R123;    low temperature;    geothermal;    organic Rankine cycle;    ORC;   

DOI  :  10.3390/sym12091463

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

An organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system with R123 working fluid has been utilised for generating electricity from low-temperature geothermal resources. The degree of superheated vapour warrants attention to be studied further. This is because the degree of superheated vapour is the last point to absorb heat energy from geothermal heat sources and influence the amount of expansion power produced by the expander. Therefore, achieving high ORC system efficiency requires a parameter of superheated vapour degree. This paper presents an experimental study on a binary cycle, applying R123 as the working fluid, to investigate the effect of variation in superheated vapour degree on the ORC efficiency. Geothermal heat sources were simulated with conduction oil as an external heat source to provide input heat to the ORC system. The temperature high inlet (TH in) evaporator was designed to remain at 120 °C during the experiment, while mass flow rate was adjusted to make superheated vapour variations, namely set at 278, 280, 282, 284, and 286 K. Furthermore, the effect was observed on heat transfer inlet, pinch, heat transfer coefficient, expander work output, isentropic efficiency, expander shaft power, power generation, thermal efficiency, and ORC efficiency. The experimental results showed that the mass flow rate nearly remained unchanged at different degrees of superheated vapour. The ranges of heat transfer inlet, pinch temperature, and heat transfer coefficient were 25.34–27.89 kJ/kg, 9.35–4.08 °C, 200.62–232.54 W/m²·K, respectively. In conclusion, ORC system efficiency can be triggered by various parameters, including the temperature on the exit side of the evaporator. The superheated vapour of R123 working fluid to higher temperatures has caused a decrease in ORC system efficiency due to the decrease in heat transfer inlets, although theoretically, the work total increased. Further investigation has found that the magnitude of the mass flow rate affects the behaviour of the components of the ORC system.

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