Technology for industrial waste heat recovery by organic Rankine cycle systems
Abstract
The recovery of industrial waste heat and the conversion thereof to useful electric power by use of Rankine cycle systems is studied. Four different aspects of ORC technology were studied: possible destructive chemical reaction between an aluminum turbine wheel and R-113 working fluid under wheel-to-rotor rub conditions; possible chemical reaction between stainless steel or carbon steel and any of five different ORC working fluids under rotor-stator rub conditions; effects on electric generator properties of extended exposure to an environment of saturated R-113 vapor/fluid; and operational proof tests under laboratory conditions of two 1070 kW, ORC, R-113 hermetic turbogenerator power module systems.
- Publication:
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Final Report Mechanical Technology
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984mti..rept.....C
- Keywords:
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- Energy Conversion;
- Industrial Wastes;
- Rankine Cycle;
- Reclamation;
- Waste Heat;
- Waste Utilization;
- Aluminum;
- Carbon Steels;
- Freon;
- Performance Tests;
- Stainless Steels;
- Turbogenerators;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer