An organic rankine cycle heat engine using a rock thermal battery as the heat source

Title: An organic rankine cycle heat engine using a rock thermal battery as the heat source
Creator: Humm, Jason Christopher
Subject: Heat engineering Renewable energy sources
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MTech
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10960
Identifier: vital:26861
Description: Organic Rankine cycles (ORC) have unique properties that are well suited to power generation from low grade heat sources. It is envisaged that a domestic scale ORC Heat Engine can be developed that will be able to run off heat stored in a solar charged rock thermal battery. The use of a thermal battery as the heat source for the ORC system will provide the user with electricity during the day and for a number of hours into the night. The concept presented consists of four key components: rock thermal battery, 1 kW scroll expander, condenser and working fluid pump.
Format: xii, 110 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Publisher: Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
Language: English
Rights: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

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