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The results of investigations conducted on the prototype of vapour driven micro-CHP unit integrated with a gas boiler are presented. The system enables cogeneration of heat and electric energy to cover the energy demand of household. The idea of such system is to produce electricity for own demand or for selling it to the electric grid – in such situation the system user will became the prosumer. A typical commercial gas boiler, additionally equipped with an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) module based on environmentally acceptable working fluid can be regarded as future generation unit. In the paper the prototype of innovative domestic cogenerative ORC system, consisting of a conventional gas boiler and a small size axial vapour microturbines (in-house designed for ORC and the commercially available for Rankine cycle (RC)), evaporator and condenser were scrutinised. In the course of study the fluid working temperatures, rates of heat, electricity generation and efficiency of the whole system were obtained. The tested system could produce electricity in the amount of 1 kWe. Some preliminary tests were started with water as working fluid and the results for that case are also presented. The investigations showed that domestic gas boiler was able to provide the saturated/superheated ethanol vapour (in the ORC system) and steam (in the RC system) as working fluids.
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- artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
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Archives of Thermodynamics
no. 37,
pages 79 - 93,
ISSN: 1231-0956 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Bibliographic description:
- Wajs J., Mikielewicz D., Bajor M., Kneba Z.: Experimental investigation of domestic micro-CHP based on the gas boiler fitted with ORC module// Archives of Thermodynamics. -Vol. 37., iss. 3 (2016), s.79-93
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1515/aoter-2016-0021
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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