Affiliation:
1. Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Temixco 62580, Mexico
2. Laboratorio de Energía Solar Térmica, Center for Research in Optics Ac, Aguascalientes 20200, Mexico
Abstract
Climate change is one of the main problems that humanity is currently facing due to carbon dioxide emissions caused by fossil fuel consumption. Organic Rankine cycles may play an important role in reducing these emissions since they can use industrial waste heat or renewable energies. This study presents the proposal and modeling of an organic Rankine cycle integrated into a double-effect absorption cooling system for the simultaneous production of power and cooling. The working fluids utilized were the ammonia–lithium nitrate mixture for the absorption system and benzene, cyclohexane, methanol, and toluene for the organic Rankine cycle. The influence of the primary operating parameters on the system performance was analyzed and discussed in terms of cooling load, turbine power, energy utilization factor, and exergy efficiency for a wide range of operating conditions. It was found that, for all cases, the cooling load was dominant over the turbine power since the minimum cooling load obtained was above 50 kW, while the maximum turbine power was under 12.8 kW. For all the operative conditions analyzed, the highest performance parameters were obtained for benzene, achieving an energy utilization factor of 0.854 and an exergy efficiency as high as 0.3982.
Subject
Process Chemistry and Technology,Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous),Bioengineering
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