Development of a semi-analytical model of volumetric expander for system-level simulation.

peer reviewedOrganic Rankine cycles are particularly well suited for recovering energy from low-grade heat sources, such as industrial waste, engine exhaust gas or solar concentrated power. In ow-capacity systems, volumetric expanders are often preferred to turbomachines because of their reliability, robustness, low rotational speed and their ability to handle high pressure ratios… Different types of machines have been investigated and successfully tested by the uthors and tools have been developed in order to analyse experimental data. Semi-empirical odel was built to analyse losses, detect potential improvement and simulate performances. This paper present a simple and fastcomputing semi-analytical model useful for simulate dynamic system integrating volumetric expander. This model is validated on experimental data and compare to black-box model.IWT SBO-110006 project The Next Generation Organic Rankine Cycle