Organic Rankine Cycle Systems for Waste-Heat Recovery

Dear Colleagues,

Large amounts of excess heat are currently wasted in various processes, with the waste heat recovery market experiencing a high growth rate globally. This market concerns the further utilisation of waste heat, with the most mainstream techniques being the re-use of this heat or its conversion to power. Heat-to-power conversion is a challenging technical and market field, and has drawn attention because it yields a high-value end-product: electricity. For medium to low temperature ranges, the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is currently the prevailing heat-to-power conversion technology, citing numerous references and many companies with commercial products. The ORC market has been growing rapidly, especially in heat recovery projects, revealing the potential of the sector.

Further evolution of ORC is a challenging technological field gathering the strong interest of the both scientific and industrial society, emphasising aspects relevant to the increment of thermal efficiency, increase of reliability, working fluids of low/negligible environmental impact, novel system architectures, design optimisation, advancements in key components, etc.

Assist. Prof. Dimitris Manolakos
Guest Editor

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