Effects of the ORC Operating Conditions on the Engine Performance for an Engine-ORC Combined System

Meng Zhao, Mingshan Wei*, Panpan Song, Zhen Liu, Zhixing Wang

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Abstract

Exhaust waste heat recovery by Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems has been proven as an effective way to improve thermal efficiency of engines. The performance of a diesel engine with an ORC system was evaluated in this paper. Both of the engine and the ORC system model were built in GT-SUITE respectively, and the two models were integrated in Simulink environment. The effects of operating conditions of the ORC system on performance of the engine in the combined system were discussed. The performance of the combined system with different inlet temperature of cooling water was also evaluated. The simulation results show that the engine backpressure increases with the decrease of the pump speed and the expander speed. The maximum engine power output increment at the engine speed of 1500 r/min and 2100 r/min is 5.47 kW and 7.07 kW respectively. The backpressure increment of the engine with ORC system increases with the increasing of cooling water inlet temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)662-667
Number of pages6
JournalEnergy Procedia
Volume105
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event8th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2016 - Beijing, China
Duration: 8 Oct 201611 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • BSFC
  • Combined system
  • Diesel engine
  • ORC
  • Operating condition

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