ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE AS WASTE HEAT RECOVERY: A REVIEW OF THEIR POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

Abstract

Increasing emissions of carbon dioxide and fuel prices lead to extra efforts in finding solution to reduce the environment waste heat. One of the solutions emerging is the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system. It is one of the promising exhaust heat recovery technologies which is widely been used to recover low to medium-grade heat rather than conventional steam Rankine cycle system. This paper highlights on the different applications ORCs that are usually been applied. These different applications have different constraints and usually different configurations will be considered based on the applications.