The 10th RC MEManuE 2019

Thermodynamic Analysis of Supercritical

Organic Rankine Cycle with Propane (R-290) as
a Working Fluid

Ari Darmawan Pasek

Harmen
Willy Adriansyah
Abdurrachim

Faculty of Mechanical and

Aerospace Engineering,
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Outline Introduction
01 Backgpound, aim of the research.

02 Methodology
Thermodynamic analysis of sub/super-critical ORC system.

03 Result and Discussion

The influence of evaporation pressure and turbine inlet
temperature to net isentropic specific work and isentrofic
thermal efficiency of sub/super-critical ORC system.

04 Conclusions
Introduction
 Background
Increasing the electricity
demand.
Supercrtical Organic Rankine
Cycle (ORC) is a potential
Medium and low enthalpy technology
energy resources are abundant
Propane is a potential working
fluid for supercritical ORC, good
Energy conversion technology is thermal performance and
limited environmental friendliness
 Aim of the
To investigate thermodynamic
research
performance especially the net
specific isentropic work and yhe
isentropic thermal efficiency of
SORC system. The thermodynamic
performance is also compare with
propylene (R-1270), R-134a and R-
227ea as working fluid.
 Methodology
Thermodynamic Calculation
and Analysis
Using Excel spreedsheet and
REFPROP 9,1 Database.

Choice of Thermodynamic Cycle

Simple sub/super-critical ORC and
sub/super-critical ORC with recuperator.

Fluid Selection
Propane (R-290), Propylene (R-
1270), R-134a, and R-227ea.
 D D
D D D

Fluid Selection
 Thermodynamic Cycles
4
Turbine/
Heatin g flu id , in
Expander W

Evaporator 5

Recuperator
Heating fluid , out 2
1 6
3
Condenser
Feed pump Cooling fluid , out
Schematic diagram of simple Cooling fluid , in
sub/super-critical ORC system
Schematic diagram of sub/super-
critical ORC system with
recuperator

T-s diagram for simple supercritical (blue line) and

subcritical (orange line) ORC of propane
 Thermodynamic Calculation

Net specific Thermal

Pump work Heat input Turbine work Heat realease
work efficiency

𝑤𝑝 = ℎ2 − ℎ1 𝑞𝑖𝑛 = ℎ3 − ℎ2 𝑤𝑡 = ℎ3 − ℎ4 𝑞𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑡 = 𝑤𝑡 − 𝑤𝑝 . 𝜂𝑡ℎ = 𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑡 = 𝑞𝑖𝑛 −𝑞𝑜𝑢𝑡.

𝑞 𝑖𝑛 𝑞 𝑖𝑛
= ℎ4 − ℎ1
Result and Discussion
 Net Specific Isentropic Work

Net specific isentropic work of ORC and SORC Comparison of the net specific isentropic
systems with propane as working fluid for various work of ORC system for different working fluid
evaporation pressure and turbine inlet
temperature
 Isentropic Thermal Efficiency

Efficiency of the ORC and SORC system with Comparison of the thermal efficiency of ORC
R-290 as working fluid for various evaporation system for different working fluid
pressure and turbine inlet temperature
 Improving Isentropic Thermal Efficiency

Efficiency of the ORC and SORC system with Increased efficiency of the ORC and SORC
recuperator and propane as working fluid system with a recuperator
 Results
Evaporator Pressure
Organic fluid name TT,in, o C Tcond, o C 0,75*Pcrit Pcrit 1,25*Pcrit
wnet,s (kJ/kg) hs h s,recuperator wnet,s (kJ/kg) hs h s,recuperator wnet,s (kJ/kg) hs h s,recuperator
Hydrocarbon
Propylene/R-1270 150 37,86124 49,51395963 9,82% 13,84% 61,86892028 12,85% 16,72% 67,61074199 14,81% 17,99%
Propane/R-290 150 37,76252 54,77548971 10,50% 14,95% 66,17671684 13,28% 17,51% 71,14795473 15,08% 18,59%
Hydroflourocarbon
R-134a 150 37,87943 30,72599297 11,65% 15,68% 35,25444547 13,96% 17,58% 37,00117204 15,42% 18,30%
R-227ea 150 37,74945 19,91083762 9,98% 16,07% 23,10419502 11,98% 18,18% 24,72139807 13,33% 19,21%
 This paper present thermodynamic
analysis of both subcritical and
supercritical ORC system with four organic
working fluids with almost the same critical
Conclusions
temperature. From the analysis that has
been done, here are some conclusions
that can be drawn:
Generally the supercritical ORC system
provides better both net specific isentropic
work and thermal efficiency than the
subcritical ORC system
For heat sources with low temperatures,
less than 150 oC, the SORC system with
propane as working fluid deliver better net
specific isentropic work and thermal
efficiency than the ORC system that using
propylene, R-134a, and R-227ea as
working fluids

SORC system with recuperator have

higher efficiency than simple SORC
system
Thank You