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Power from heat by using organic rankine cycle (ORC) technology. Either to increase power output or to decrease fuel consumption

Country of Origin: Netherlands
Reference Number: TONL20170717001
Publication Date: 17 July 2017

Summary

A Dutch company has developed a groundbreaking heat recovery technology to increase the efficiency of local power generation units by using organic rankine cycle (ORC) technology. The company is looking for partners that have experience with decentralized production of electricity and heat based on biogas, landfill gas, mine gas and diesel. The company is offering a commercial agreement with technical assistance or a technical cooperation agreement.

Description

Decentralized power plants play a vital role in creating a low carbon economy because they are very efficient and can turn local energy sources (biogas, biomass, landfill gas, mine gas, diesel, natural gas, etc.) into electricity and locally needed heat.



A Dutch company has developed a heat recovery technology to increase the efficiency of local power generation units by using organic rankine cycle (ORC) technology.  Decentralized power plants in combination with this technology can increase their power output up to 10% without using additional fuel.



The ORC technology offers a further boost to the efficiency of smaller power plants: the technology is based upon the traditional water steam cycle used in conventional power plants for the last 150 years.



Thanks to replacing water as working fluid with an organic medium, ORC plants realize a much higher efficiency level at small scale than the water steam based cycle. ORCs allow baseload generation to match the demand profile for electricity and heat.



ORC power plants in combination with gas or diesel engines increase the power output of the engine by up to 10% without requiring any additional fuel. For engines in the 1-3 MW range, a single ORC unit is the best fit, while larger / multiple engines are best served with several ORCs as modules.



The ORC unit can also run in Combined Heat and Power (CHP) mode making heat available for drying or local district heating. The ORC unit has no implication on the operation of the engine. Major suppliers have approved connecting the company's ORC units to the exhaust of their engines.



Since 2001 the company is developing and deploying these compact, modular and highly efficient ORC power units.



Partners that have experience with decentralized production  of electricity and heat based on biogas, landfill gas, mine gas and diesel are sought. The company is offering a commercial agreement with technical assistance or a technical cooperation agreement.

Advantages and Innovations

The benefits of this type of installation:

- because of more than 700.000 operating hours in 45 plants across Europe the installations have proven their reliability

- unsupervised and fully automated operation

- standardized serial production

- efficiency improvement up to 19%

- in CHP mode production of water at 85 degrees Celsius or less

- limited sensitivity to ambient temperatures

- payback time 2-4 years

- low in maintenance cost

- international partner network

- dedicated service team with the option of remote monitoring and analysis

Stage Of Development

Already on the market

Requested partner

- Type/ field of activity: 

The company is looking for partners that have experience with decentralized production  of electricity and heat based on biogas, landfill gas, mine gas and diesel and who want to integrate the company's solution in their total system offer to their final user.



- Role: 

The role of this new partner is to integrate the innovative solution into their systems to convert residual heat into electricity with a higher conversion rate and a fast return on investment for the final client.

(commercial agreement with technical assistance) 



The company 's technology can be used to upgrade the total product offering or technology of genset technology providers. (technical cooperation agreement)



All partners need to have a proven track record in their local power generation markets.

Dissemination Countries

Argentina, Brazil, Belarus, Chile, China, Indonesia, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Paraguay, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, USA, Vietnam