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Small scale radial inflow turbine performance and pre-design maps for Organic Rankine Cycles

Mounier, Violette  
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Olmedo, Luis Eric
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Schiffmann, Jürg
2018
Energy

While small scale ORCs are currently dominated by volumetric expanders, the use of turbomachines is reconsidered due to their high efficiency and power density. Yet, suitable performance maps, which ensure an accurate starting point for the turbine design, are still missing for small scale turbines. This paper proposes a new non-dimensional performance map tailored for small scale turbines. The map is generated using an experimentally validated 1D code and adapted to small scale ORCs applications. A new polynomial fit is proposed, which accounts for the pressure ratio, since it is suggested to have a strong influence on the shape of the map. Through the analysis of the turbine losses, the underlying phenomena shaping the efficiency map are explained. A sensitivity analysis of the geometrical dependencies on the map shows a strong impact of the shroud to tip radius ratio, and explains why the Ns-Ds surface of the presented map is smaller than the original one. Compared to the experimentally validated 1D model the new map yields prediction errors below 4%.

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DOI
10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.002
Author(s)
Mounier, Violette  
Olmedo, Luis Eric
Schiffmann, Jürg
Date Issued

2018

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Energy
Volume

143

Start page

1072

End page

1084

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LAMD  
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January 4, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/143592
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