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ORC Systems Based on Turbines

This area includes systems known to have turbine expanders, and large systems assumed to be using turbine expanders.

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*Title:*	RP-5 renewable energy efficiency project (REEP), Final technical report	ORC system as part of a very complex building system. Includes manure digester to produce methane, absorption chillers, Stirling engines, and much more. Assumed to have a turbine in the ORC system based on photo on page 25.
*Author(s):*	Neil Clifton P.E., Dave Wall, Jamal Zughbi P.E.
*Organization:*	Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Chino, CA
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2007-09-27
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	923434-AGxT5u.pdf
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*Title:*	Turboexpander-Generators for natural gas applications	Very large turboexpanders.
*Author(s):*	Brooke
*Organization:*	General Electric
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2005-01-23
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	truboexpanders.pdf
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*Title:*	Exhaust energy recovery - DEER conference	Discusses program to install ORC systems on large diesel trucks. Mentions both radial inflow and axial flow turbines. Proposes using R245fa.
*Author(s):*	Christopher R. Nelson
*Organization:*	Cummins Inc.
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2004-08-24
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	2006_deer_nelson.pdf
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*Title:*	Cummins waste heat recovery	Two slides regarding integrating a turbine based ORC system into a large diesel truck engine.
*Author(s):*	Christopher Nelson, Roland Gravel, Ralph Nine
*Organization:*	Cummins, DoE, DoE NETL
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2007-00-00
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	deer07_nelson.pdf
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*Title:*	Parabolic trough organic Rankine cycle power plant	Discussion of a 1.0 MWe Ormat-Solargenix power plant in AZ. Working fluid is n-pentane. Solar trough field supplies working fluid at 204 C, 22.3 Bar. ORC system is assumed to use a turbine.
*Author(s):*	S. Canada, G. Cohen, R. Cable, D. Brosseau, and H.Price
*Organization:*	NREL
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2004-10-25
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	37077.pdf
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*Title:*	Rotoflow turboexpanders for hydrocarbon applications	Very large turbo expanders.
*Author(s):*
*Organization:*	General Electric
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	2002-06-25
*Date Posted:*	2009-02-28
*Internal Link:*	rotoflow_overview.pdf
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*Title:*	Organic Rankine cycle silent power plant, 1.5 kW, 28 Vdc	An interesting project using CP-25 (toluene) as the working fluid.
*Author(s):*
*Organization:*	Sundstrand Energy Systems
*Publisher:*
*Date Published:*	1975-09-22
*Date Posted:*	2009-03-05
*Internal Link:*	ADA13960.pdf
*External Link:*	NTIC