Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) for mobile applications – Economic feasibility in different transportation sectors

Roberto Pili, Alessandro Romagnoli, Kai Kamossa, Andreas Schuster, Hartmut Spliethoff and Christoph Wieland

Applied Energy, 2017, vol. 204, issue C, 1188-1197

Abstract: Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) offer a valuable alternative to recover waste heat from internal combustion engines (ICE) in transportation systems, leading to fuel energy savings and reduced emissions. Nevertheless, the additional weight of the ORC affects the net energy balance of the overall system and the ORC occupies additional volume that competes with vehicle transportation capacity. A lower income from delivered freight or passenger tickets will be therefore achieved. This work defines a benchmark for the economic feasibility of integrating an ORC into an ICE and the resulting economic impact of weight and volume in the transportation sector. It additionally investigates the current ORC situation on the market.

Keywords: Organic Rankine Cycle; Transportation; Space requirements; Volume; Weight; Feasibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.04.056

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