Exergy, Economic, and Life-Cycle Assessment of ORC System for Waste Heat Recovery in a Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engine

In this article, an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) was integrated into a 2-MW natural gas engine to evaluate the possibility of generating electricity by recovering the engine’s exhaust heat. The operational and design variables with the greatest influence on the energy, economic, and environ...

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Main Authors: Guillermo Valencia Ochoa, Javier Cárdenas Gutierrez, Jorge Duarte Forero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Resources
Subjects:
lca
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/9/1/2