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ORC Theory & Miscellaneous Examples

This area includes papers and links regarding ORC system theory.

This area also includes documents that discuss a side variety of expander types.

Following are some documents on this subject. While these may be copyrighted, they were all downloaded for free. The authors were very generous to make their work available to public, please give credit where it is due if you use information they have provided.

If you have additional documents on this subject please email them to editor-at-organicrankine-dot-com.

8 document(s) in database

*Title:*	Renewable energy powered organic Rankine cycle	Comparison of power cycles. Comparison of solar collectors. Extensive discussion of theory and fabrication of evacuated tube - parabolic reflector solar collector.
*Author(s):*	Sanjayan Velautham
*Organization:*	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2006-00-00
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	75125.pdf
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*Title:*	Organic Rankine cycle engines for solar power	Discusses state of the technology circa 2000. Compares various power cycles.
*Author(s):*	Bill Batton
*Organization:*	Barber-Nichols Inc.
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2000-06-18
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	21036.pdf
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*Title:*	ORC - Different applications	A survey of ORC systems including laboratory automobile expanders, CHP systems, and large turbine systems.
*Author(s):*	Ing Bruno Vanslambrouck
*Organization:*	Laboratory of Industrial Fysics and Applied Mechanics, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, dept PIH
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2007-05-08
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	Bruno_Vanslambrouk.pdf
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*Title:*	Design and optimization of parabolic trough organic Rankine cycle powerplants	Discussion of the economics of scaling up solar thermal power plants.
*Author(s):*	Andrew C. McMahan, Sanford A. Klein, Douglas T. Reindl
*Organization:*	University of Wisconsin - Madison, Solar Energy Laboratory
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2006-07-12
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	t38-A0007.pdf
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*Title:*	Home on the range	Discusses advantages of CHP compared to centralized power plants. Mentions ORC systems a candidate for CHP.
*Author(s):*	Martin Griffiths
*Organization:*	Baxi Group & Lancaster University
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2005-10-07
*Date Posted:*	2009-03-05
*Internal Link:*	Home on the Range.pdf
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*Title:*	CO2 compressor expander analysis	Extensive discussion of the CO2 cycle, and comparison of several types of expanders.
*Author(s):*	Hans-Joachim Huff, Reinhard Radermacher
*Organization:*	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2003-03-00
*Date Posted:*	2009-03-05
*Internal Link:*	10060-final.pdf
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*Title:*	Reliability prediction program for organic Rankine cycle engine generator systems.	Compares systems made by Fairchild and Thermo Electron Corporation.
*Author(s):*	D. J. Hoffman
*Organization:*	ARINC Research Corporation, Annapolic, MD
*Publisher:*	NTIC
*Date Published:*	1970-11-00
*Date Posted:*	2009-03-05
*Internal Link:*	ADO715965.pdf
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*Title:*	Computer animation of moving scrolls	My apologies to the original creator of this movie as I have lost track of where I found this.
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*Date Published:*
*Date Posted:*	2009-03-05
*Internal Link:*	spirales.avi
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