An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car
Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants are characterized by high efficiency and flexibility, as a result of a high degree of maturity. These systems are particularly suited for recovering energy from low temperature heat sources, such as exhaust heat from other plants. Despite ORCs having been ass...
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| author | Antonio Mariani Maria Laura Mastellone Biagio Morrone Maria Vittoria Prati Andrea Unich |
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| description | Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants are characterized by high efficiency and flexibility, as a result of a high degree of maturity. These systems are particularly suited for recovering energy from low temperature heat sources, such as exhaust heat from other plants. Despite ORCs having been assumed to be appropriate for stationary power plants, since their layout, size and weight constraints are less stringent, they represent a possible solution for improving the efficiency of propulsion systems for road transportation. The present paper investigates an ORC system recovering heat from the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. A passenger car with a Diesel engine was tested over a Real Driving Emission (RDE) cycle. During the test exhaust gas mass flow rate and temperature have been measured, thus calculating the enthalpy stream content available as heat addition to ORC plant in actual driving conditions. Engine operating conditions during the test were discretized with a 10-point grid in the engine torque−speed plane. The ten discretized conditions were employed to evaluate the ORC power and the consequent engine efficiency increase in real driving conditions for the actual Rankine cycle. N-pentane (R601) was identified as the working fluid for ORC and R134a was employed as reference fluid for comparison purposes. The achievable power from the ORC system was calculated to be between 0.2 and 1.3 kW, with 13% system efficiency. The engine efficiency increment ranged from 2.0% to 7.5%, with an average efficiency increment of 4.6% over the RDE test. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59f4f542118745c399787cb5ad1df0322022-12-22T02:58:40ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732020-01-0113231410.3390/en13020314en13020314An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger CarAntonio Mariani0Maria Laura Mastellone1Biagio Morrone2Maria Vittoria Prati3Andrea Unich4Department of Engineering, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa CE, ItalyDepartment of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Viale Abramo Lincoln, 5, 81100 Caserta CE, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa CE, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Motori, Via Guglielmo Marconi, 4, 80125 Napoli NA, ItalyDepartment of Engineering, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa CE, ItalyOrganic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants are characterized by high efficiency and flexibility, as a result of a high degree of maturity. These systems are particularly suited for recovering energy from low temperature heat sources, such as exhaust heat from other plants. Despite ORCs having been assumed to be appropriate for stationary power plants, since their layout, size and weight constraints are less stringent, they represent a possible solution for improving the efficiency of propulsion systems for road transportation. The present paper investigates an ORC system recovering heat from the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. A passenger car with a Diesel engine was tested over a Real Driving Emission (RDE) cycle. During the test exhaust gas mass flow rate and temperature have been measured, thus calculating the enthalpy stream content available as heat addition to ORC plant in actual driving conditions. Engine operating conditions during the test were discretized with a 10-point grid in the engine torque−speed plane. The ten discretized conditions were employed to evaluate the ORC power and the consequent engine efficiency increase in real driving conditions for the actual Rankine cycle. N-pentane (R601) was identified as the working fluid for ORC and R134a was employed as reference fluid for comparison purposes. The achievable power from the ORC system was calculated to be between 0.2 and 1.3 kW, with 13% system efficiency. The engine efficiency increment ranged from 2.0% to 7.5%, with an average efficiency increment of 4.6% over the RDE test.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/314heat recovery systemsinternal combustion engineorganic rankine cyclereal driving emission testthermodynamic modeling |
| spellingShingle | Antonio Mariani Maria Laura Mastellone Biagio Morrone Maria Vittoria Prati Andrea Unich An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car Energies heat recovery systems internal combustion engine organic rankine cycle real driving emission test thermodynamic modeling |
| title | An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car |
| title_full | An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car |
| title_fullStr | An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car |
| title_short | An Organic Rankine Cycle Bottoming a Diesel Engine Powered Passenger Car |
| title_sort | organic rankine cycle bottoming a diesel engine powered passenger car |
| topic | heat recovery systems internal combustion engine organic rankine cycle real driving emission test thermodynamic modeling |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/314 |
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