Advances in Organic Rankine Cycle System and Thermal Storage System
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 February 2024) | Viewed by 2014
Special Issue Editors
Interests: low-temperature heat-to-power conversion with ORC; solar sub-critical ORC prototypes (power generation and desalination) design, manufacturing and testing; volumetric expanders and heat exchangers design, manufacturing and testing; super-critical, TransCritical prototypes design manufacturing and testing; trilateral flash cycle
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Interests: applied thermodynamics; power generation cycles; heat-to-power conversion; supercritical CO2; heat transfer; cycles innovation; fluid mechanics; heat exchangers design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, there is a growing need to recover wasted heat and improve the efficiency of power generation systems, given the extent to which since environmental and financial limits and crises impose energy consumption reduction on a global level. organic Rankine cycle is considered to be the most promising thermodynamic cycle for low-temperature rejected heat and its conversion into power, a process of much of research interest. Moreover, the thermal storage systems can accelerate the largescale employment of heat-to-power conversion engines, leading to larger operation times, the development of polygeneration systems and finally increased energy savings and reduced CO2 footprint.
The main scope of this Special Issue is to present the current state-of-the art in organic Rankine cycles and thermal energy systems. This includes CO2 power cycles and other innovative power generation cycles, which may lead to next-generation power production systems. This Special Issue will contribute a comprehensive forum for research ideas, including both simulations and experimental studies on a wide range of topics, such as the following:
- Organic Rankine cycles modelling concepts and control
- Power conversion cycles
- Supercritical CO2 power cycle
- Trilateral flash cycle
- Thermal energy storage systems
- Innovative methods/materials for energy storage
- Components design and modelling
- Combined heat and power generation applications
Dr. Dimitris S. Manolakos
Dr. Apostolos Gkountas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ORC engine
- waste heat recovery power conversion
- energy storage
- phase change
- techno-economic analysis
- combined cycles
- cogeneration
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