
Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Systems
Technologies and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Provides a thorough introduction to ORC power systems
- Contains detailed chapters on ORC plant components
- Includes a section focusing on ORC design and optimization
- Reviews key applications of ORC technologies, including cogeneration from biomass, electricity generation from geothermal reservoirs and concentrating solar power installations, waste heat recovery from gas turbines, internal combustion engines and medium- and low-temperature industrial processes
- Various chapters are authored by well-known specialists from Academia and ORC manufacturers
Readership
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to ORC Power Systems
1. Theoretical basis of the ORC - Ennio Macchi
2. History of ORC systems - Lucien Y. Bronicki
3. Technical options for ORC systems - Marco Astolfi
4. Organic fluids for ORC systems: classification and calculation of thermodynamic and transport properties - Ian Bell, Eric Lemmon
5. Thermal stability of organic fluids for ORC systems - Costante Mario Invernizzi, Davide Bonalumi
6. Dynamic modelling and control of ORC plants - Francesco Casella
7. Thermodynamic and techno-economic optimization of ORC systems - Marco Astolfi, Emanuele Martelli, Leonardo Pierobon
Part 2: ORC plant components and system optimization
8. Fluid-dynamic design of ORC turbines - Giacomo Persico, Matteo Pini
9. Axial flow turbines for ORC plants - Ennio Macchi, Marco Astolfi
10. Radial inflow turbines for ORC plants - Pall Valdimarsson
11. Radial outflow turbines for ORC expanders - Claudio Spadacini, Dario Rizzi
12. Volumetric expanders for ORC systems - Vincent Lemort
13. Heat exchangers, condensers and other components for ORC plants - Alberto Cavallini
Part 3: Fields of application
14. Geothermal energy exploitation with ORC technologies - Claudio Spadacini, Luca Xodo
15. Biomass-fired ORC combined heat and power (CHP) systems - Alessandro Guercio, Roberto Bini
16. ORC-based concentrating solar power (CSP) plants - Matthew Orosz
17. ORC systems for large-scale waste heat recovery (WHR) to produce electricity - Hua Tian
18. Micro-ORC systems for domestic cogeneration - Roberto Bracco
Product details
- No. of pages: 698
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2016
- Published: August 24, 2016
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780081005118
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081005101
About the Editors
Ennio Macchi
Affiliations and Expertise
Marco Astolfi
Affiliations and Expertise
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