Recent content by Dolph1983

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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    Hi, just thought i would post an update on my project. It would be great to hear from people who would like to get involved with my project. http://www.youtube.com/user/DoLpH1983?feature=mhum#p/u/0/2-Dj3m7v3a0 Thanks
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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    Curl, I'm located in the north west of UK. I want to keep the liquid Butane as close to saturation as possible between the pump and vapouriser. Without complicating the system too much. On leaving the scroll expander turbine the Butane will condense as it passes through a group of...
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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    Curl, thanks very much, This is what i have found, hope it is of use. http://www.chemicalogic.com/mollier/Butane.jpg http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/haugwarb/Phase_diagrams_and_thermodynamic_tables/PhaseDiagrams/n-Butane.PDF The turbine outlet pressure will be 2 to 3 bar lower than the...
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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    Thanks for the reply Curl, The only known data and figures i have at the moment are the inlet temperature of the heat transfer fluid (80-85) at the evaporator heat exchangers and a flow rate of 10-15 litre per min through the heat exchangers can be ahieved. The heat exchangers I'm looking...
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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    I will try and give a bit more information just incase anyone is interested in assisting me. Below is a link to a thesis which i found helpful, however the working fluid and input temperatures are different to what i hope to experiment with, so there is a limit to this document relevance to...
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    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project

    Help with Organic Rankine Cycle Project please! Moderator's note: this thread is from May 2011 Hi there everyone, I'm posting here in the hope that someone will be willing to help an engineering layman do some calculations, I'm a plumber not an engineer. Thanks to anyone who decides to help...