Organic Rankine Cycle Technology

  • Collaboration with global companies for decades
  • New configurations and optimal system design methods
  • Turbomachinery design methods, testing of high-speed turbines
  • Heat exchangers design methods, testing of condensers
  • Working fluids, incl. mixtures (property measurements and modeling)
  • System dynamics modeling and control design

Applications

  • Aircraft combined-cycle APU
  • Combined-cycle engine / power unit
  • Long-haul truck power train (diesel engine, gas turbine, hybrid)
  • Distributed / flexible power plants
  • Industrial waste heat to power
  • Geothermal power plants
The ORCHID (ORC Hybrid Integrated Device)
Schematic of a waste-heat-to-power arrangement
CAD of the high-speed 10 kW radial ORCHID turbine
CAD of the high-speed 10 kW radial ORCHID turbine