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NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Laboratory of Thermal Turbomachines
Kontoleontos Evgenia
EFFICIENT LOW TEMPERATURE GEOTHERMAL BINARY POWER
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources
Low-Bin Final Workshop : Braunau 28 AugustLOW-BIN PROJECT
Computer modelling and optimization of Rankine cycles for
low temperature power generation
K.C. Giannakoglou, Lab. Thermal Turbomachines, NTUA, Greece 2
LOW BIN PROJECT
Objective of the projects
Development and demonstration of the ORC power plant with geothermal water temperature of 65-90°C 80°C
80°C
Our Objective
• Computer Modelling of the Rankine Cycle
• Optimization of the Rankine Cycle
Optimal Rankine Cycles
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Cooling Heat Exchanger
shell and tube condenser
Modelling Rankine Cycle’s Components
Modelling of the condenser
Modelling of the heat exchanger
Geothermal Heat Exchanger
plate heat exchanger (PHE)
with corrugated parallel plates
Development of a software which uses the fluids’
properties and provides us with the thermodynamic
properties of each point on the Rankine Cycle.
Optimization of the Rankine cycle
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R134a
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Cooling Heat Exchanger
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Single phase flow
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Evaporation heat transfer –Two phase
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Geothermal Heat Exchanger
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• the pressure of the liquid working fluid at the pump outlet,
• the pressure of the liquid working fluid at the pump inlet,
• the mass flow rate of the working fluid in the cycle,
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In order to optimize the Rankine cycle of the plant we had to define:
1.
The variables of the optimization
Rankine cycle optimization
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Rankine cycle optimization
2. The objectives of the optimization :
• MaximizeMaximize
net overall efficiency of the plant
• MinimizeMinimize
the cost of the plant
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Minimize both Exchangers’
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using the EASY software code (Evolutionary Algorithm System)by National Technical University of Athens
http://velos0.ltt.mech.ntua.gr/EASY
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ORC with temperature threshold of 80°C
Optimal solutions
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1st
objective
2nd
objective
(m2)
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ORC with temperature threshold of 80°C
Optimal solutions
1st
objective
2nd
objective
(m2)
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ORC with temperature threshold of 80°C
1.6Total length of the exchanger (m)
5.5Length of the condenser (m)520 Number of plates
29Number of tubes0.8Width of the plate (m)
1.3Diameter of the tube (cm)1.43Length of the plate (m)
Shell and tube condenserP.H.E. -
plate heat exchanger
Parameter Value
p2 (kPa) 1876
mgr (kg/sec) 60
mR134a (kg/sec) 18.5
ΔΤH (°C) 15
ΔΤC (°C) 5
R134a pump power (kW) 30
Cooling water flow (kg/sec) 164.5
Surface of the condenser (m2) 2158
Surface of the heat exchanger (m2) 597
Total H.E. surface (m2) 2755
Net conversion efficiency 5.77
Net Electrical Power (kW) 217
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Comparison between different temperature thresholds
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Temperature threshold at 80, 100, 120,140 °C
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Variable T = 80οC T = 100οC T = 120οC T = 140οC
P2
(bar) 16.24 26.51 29.98 29.98
mgeothermal
(kg/sec) 60 60 60 60
mR134a
(kg/sec) 18.5 17.5 16 16
R134a pump power (kW) 22 47 53 53
cooling water flow (kg/sec)
167 161 159 161
Condenser surface (m²) 1647 1629 1831 1785
Surface of the PHE (m²) 445 397 154 83
Total H.E. surface (m²) 2092 2026 1986 1867
Net conversion efficiency 4.6 7.3 8.7 8.8
Net electrical Power (kW) 172 277 332 336
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Comparison between different temperature thresholds
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Laboratory of Thermal Turbomachines
Kontoleontos Evgenia
EFFICIENT LOW TEMPERATURE GEOTHERMAL BINARY POWER
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources
Low-Bin Final Workshop : Braunau 28 AugustLOW-BIN PROJECT
Computer modelling
and optimization of Rankine
cycles for
low temperature power generation