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A study of organic working fluids of an organic Rankine cycle for solar concentrating power plant

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This work is a comparative study between four different configurations of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) in order to find the configuration that gives the best performances. This study also made a comparison between seven organic fluids used as working fluids in the four ORC configurations. These fluids are all hydrocarbons. Then we made a parametric analysis of the results obtained in this first part. In a second part, we developed the binary mixtures of the seven pure hydrocarbons with the NIST software REFPROP 9 and we used them in our four ORC configurations. The obtained results are given and discussed.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

    D. Saifaoui & Y. Elmaanaoui

  2. Research Institute of Solar Energy and New Energy, Rabat, Morocco

    A. Faik

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Saifaoui, D., Elmaanaoui, Y. & Faik, A. A study of organic working fluids of an organic Rankine cycle for solar concentrating power plant. Appl. Sol. Energy 50, 158–167 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0003701X14030128

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