In thermal engineering, the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a type of thermodynamic cycle. It is a variation of the Rankine cycle named for its use of an ...

Working principle of the ORC · Choice of the working fluid

For this figure, the curve indicates a vapor-liquid equilibrium (See Rankine cycle). Irreversible systems and losses of heat (for example, due to friction) ...

Organic Rankine cycle edit. Main article: Organic Rankine cycle. The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) uses an organic fluid such as n-pentane or toluene in ...

Rankine cycle (classical steam engine); Regenerative cycle (steam engine more efficient than Rankine cycle); Organic Rankine cycle (Coolant changing phase in ...

Carnot heat engine · Timeline of heat engine... · Thermoacoustic heat engine

For this figure, the curve indicates a vapor-liquid equilibrium (See Rankine cycle). Irreversible systems and losses of energy (for example, work due to ...

Thermodynamic cycle · Carnot heat engine · Carnot's theorem

An Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system is a closed thermodynamic cycle used for power production from low to medium-high temperature heat sources ranging ...

... of the works of William Rankine, Rudolf Clausius, and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin). The foundations of statistical thermodynamics were set out by ...

The Laws of Thermodynaics · History · First law · Timeline

Turboden's ORC systems take advantage of the organic Rankine cycle to generate electricity and heat from a variety of thermal sources, recovering and ...

Drescher, Dieter.Bru¨ggemann, Fluid selection for the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in biomass power and heat plants,. Applied Thermal Engineering 27 ( ...