Power Generation From Waste Heat Using Organic Rankine Cycle Systems

Many efforts are currently being pursued to develop and implement new energy technologies aimed at meeting our national energy goals The use of organic Rankine cycle engines to generate power from waste heat provides a near term means to greatly increase the fuel utilization efficiency of many processes. Sundstrand has developed a 600 KW ORC unit to recover energy from various waste heat sources. A field test program has been jointly funded by Sundstrand and the U. S. Department of Energy. As part of this program, five units are being placed in field to demonstrate the economic viability and the reliability of the equipment in commercial and industrial applications. This paper describes the system and the field test program