Dynamic Simulation of Partial Load Operation of an Organic Rankine Cycle with Two Parallel Expanders

Michael Chukwuemeka Ekwonu, Mirae Kim, Binqi Chen, Muhammad Tauseef Nasir and Kyung Chun Kim ()
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Michael Chukwuemeka Ekwonu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Eco-Friendly Smart Ship Parts Technology Innovation Center, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Mirae Kim: School of Mechanical Engineering, Eco-Friendly Smart Ship Parts Technology Innovation Center, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Binqi Chen: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611730, China
Muhammad Tauseef Nasir: School of Mechanical Engineering, Eco-Friendly Smart Ship Parts Technology Innovation Center, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Kyung Chun Kim: School of Mechanical Engineering, Eco-Friendly Smart Ship Parts Technology Innovation Center, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: The parallel expander ORC system is one of the solutions for providing an additional power output by improving the partial-load performance of an ORC. The parallel expander system corresponds to partial-load conditions by switching between various combinations of the expanders. During this process, the dynamic behavior occurs, which have not been characterized well in the open literature according to the best of the authors’ knowledge. In this study, we developed a dynamic modeling of an ORC system using dual expanders (DE-ORC) to study the dynamic responses during its mode changes. System components were simulated using an open-source library of ThermoCycle written in Modelica language. For each component, empirical parameters were implemented based on the experimental results. Furthermore, during the mode change that involved going from dual expander mode to singular expander mode, and to prevent the formation of the droplet in the expanders, a control strategy was proposed and simulated. The strategy involved lowering of the mass flow rate and then shifting the mode. Several timings between flow rate lowering and shifting the mode were analyzed, and the optimum shifting time was found to be in between 40 to 50 s.

Keywords: organic Rankine cycle; partial load operation; dynamic simulation; parallel expanders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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