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Choice of optimal working fluid for binary power plants at extremely low temperature brine

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The geothermal energy development problems based on using binary power plants utilizing lowpotential geothermal resources are considered. It is shown that one of the possible ways of increasing the efficiency of heat utilization of geothermal brine in a wide temperature range is the use of multistage power systems with series-connected binary power plants based on incremental primary energy conversion. Some practically significant results of design-analytical investigations of physicochemical properties of various organic substances and their influence on the main parameters of the flowsheet and the technical and operational characteristics of heat-mechanical and heat-exchange equipment for binary power plant operating on extremely-low temperature geothermal brine (70°С) are presented. The calculation results of geothermal brine specific flow rate, capacity (net), and other operation characteristics of binary power plants with the capacity of 2.5 MW at using various organic substances are a practical interest. It is shown that the working fluid selection significantly influences on the parameters of the flowsheet and the operational characteristics of the binary power plant, and the problem of selection of working fluid is in the search for compromise based on the priorities in the field of efficiency, safety, and ecology criteria of a binary power plant. It is proposed in the investigations on the working fluid selection of the binary plant to use the plotting method of multiaxis complex diagrams of relative parameters and characteristic of binary power plants. Some examples of plotting and analyzing these diagrams intended to choose the working fluid provided that the efficiency of geothermal brine is taken as main priority.

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    G. V. Tomarov, A. A. Shipkov & E. V. Sorokina

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Original Russian Text © G.V. Tomarov, A.A. Shipkov, E.V. Sorokina, 2016, published in Teploenergetika.

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Tomarov, G.V., Shipkov, A.A. & Sorokina, E.V. Choice of optimal working fluid for binary power plants at extremely low temperature brine. Therm. Eng. 63, 887–895 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601516120065

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