Novel and conventional working fluid mixtures for solar Rankine cycles: Performance assessment and multi-criteria selection
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2015
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Mavrou, PaschaliaPapadopoulos, Athanasios I.
Stijepović, Mirko
Seferlis, Panos
Linke, Patrick
Voutetakis, Spyros
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This work investigates the performance of working fluid mixtures for use in solar ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle systems) with heat storage employing FPC (Flat Plate Collectors). Several mixtures are considered including conventional choices often utilized in ORC as well as novel mixtures previously designed using advanced computer aided molecular design methods (Papadopoulos et al., 2013). The impact of heat source variability on the ORC performance is assessed for different working fluid mixtures. Solar radiation is represented in detail through actual, hourly averaged data for an entire year. A multi-criteria mixture selection methodology unveils important trade-offs among several important system operating parameters and efficiently highlights optimum operating ranges. Such parameters include the ORC thermal efficiency, the net generated power, the volume ratio across the turbine, the mass flow rate of the ORC working fluid, the evaporator temperature glide, the temperature drop in the... storage tank, the ORC total yearly operating duration, the required collector aperture area to generate 1 kW of power and the irreversibility. A mixture of neopentane - 2-fluoromethoxy-2-methylpropane at 70% neopentane is found to be the most efficient in all the considered criteria simultaneously.
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Organic Rankine Cycles / Working fluids / Mixtures / Solar collectorsSource:
Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015, 75, 384-396Publisher:
- Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.077
ISSN: 1359-4311
WoS: 000347263800039
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84921489264
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Tehnološko-metalurški fakultetTY - JOUR AU - Mavrou, Paschalia AU - Papadopoulos, Athanasios I. AU - Stijepović, Mirko AU - Seferlis, Panos AU - Linke, Patrick AU - Voutetakis, Spyros PY - 2015 UR - http://TechnoRep.tmf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3014 AB - This work investigates the performance of working fluid mixtures for use in solar ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle systems) with heat storage employing FPC (Flat Plate Collectors). Several mixtures are considered including conventional choices often utilized in ORC as well as novel mixtures previously designed using advanced computer aided molecular design methods (Papadopoulos et al., 2013). The impact of heat source variability on the ORC performance is assessed for different working fluid mixtures. Solar radiation is represented in detail through actual, hourly averaged data for an entire year. A multi-criteria mixture selection methodology unveils important trade-offs among several important system operating parameters and efficiently highlights optimum operating ranges. Such parameters include the ORC thermal efficiency, the net generated power, the volume ratio across the turbine, the mass flow rate of the ORC working fluid, the evaporator temperature glide, the temperature drop in the storage tank, the ORC total yearly operating duration, the required collector aperture area to generate 1 kW of power and the irreversibility. A mixture of neopentane - 2-fluoromethoxy-2-methylpropane at 70% neopentane is found to be the most efficient in all the considered criteria simultaneously. PB - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford T2 - Applied Thermal Engineering T1 - Novel and conventional working fluid mixtures for solar Rankine cycles: Performance assessment and multi-criteria selection EP - 396 SP - 384 VL - 75 DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.077 ER -
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Mavrou, P., Papadopoulos, A. I., Stijepović, M., Seferlis, P., Linke, P.,& Voutetakis, S.. (2015). Novel and conventional working fluid mixtures for solar Rankine cycles: Performance assessment and multi-criteria selection. in Applied Thermal Engineering Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 75, 384-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.077
Mavrou P, Papadopoulos AI, Stijepović M, Seferlis P, Linke P, Voutetakis S. Novel and conventional working fluid mixtures for solar Rankine cycles: Performance assessment and multi-criteria selection. in Applied Thermal Engineering. 2015;75:384-396. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.077 .
Mavrou, Paschalia, Papadopoulos, Athanasios I., Stijepović, Mirko, Seferlis, Panos, Linke, Patrick, Voutetakis, Spyros, "Novel and conventional working fluid mixtures for solar Rankine cycles: Performance assessment and multi-criteria selection" in Applied Thermal Engineering, 75 (2015):384-396, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.10.077 . .