- 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
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Hits: 839
- Visitors: 894
- Downloads: 108
Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
View Details Download | SOURCE1 | An organic rankine cycle heat engine using a rock thermal battery as the heat source | 2 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |