ICE heat recovery
Integration of Organic Rankine Cycles with others heat engines (internal combustion engines & fuel cells)
ORChidea models are implemented to increase energy conversion efficiency with others heat engines. One application is with biogas engines where the temperature at the chimney is recovered to increase electricity production. Also, ORC technology avoids electrical production when biogas engine is switched off. On ships, the possibility to use water sea as condenser let Organic Rankine Cycle application very attractive. Combining one model of ORChidea platform with medium temperature fuel cells (180°C) it is possible to create a heat engine whose electrical conversion system can be higher that 50% also for low power application.
Plant scheme
Heat recovery in an automotive engine or used for stationary applications combined with an electric generator can be done on the combustion gases (which can have temperatures as high as 480 ° C) and on the radiator water. In fact, it is possible to couple LT and MT models of ORChidea platform by realizing the recovery on sources at different temperatures. .
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