TY - JOUR A1 - Bonk, Christian Dirk A1 - Laux, Christoph A1 - Rödder, Maximilian A1 - Neef, Matthias T1 - Design of a 1 KW Organic Rankine Cycle for Teaching and Research Issues T2 - Energy Procedia N2 - This paper deals with the design of a micro-scale ORC plant for teaching and research including the development of an automated control concept. The aim is to provide a safe and environmentally acceptable micro-scale heat engine, which can be developed, implemented and used in university labs for the education of students as well as for small research projects. The test rig allows the support of several learning outcomes on a multi-disciplinary level particularly for the implementation and simulation of small power systems. Special attention was given to the organic working fluid characteristics and its selection process. In addition to the above-mentioned performance goals, favourable safety properties and low global warming potential were decisive in the selection of the novel organic fluid called 3M™ Novec™ 649. The performance and the fluid behaviour of Novec 649 in a micro-scale power cycle are of major interest and the research goal for the test rig presented in this paper. Due to the expected power output of 1 kW, a scroll expander was chosen as the generator drive for the micro plant. In order to design the major parts of the ORC, the thermodynamic simulation software EBSILON®Professional was used. The supply temperature was set to 140 °C. As a result of the simulation, feasible expander inlet pressures spread from 5.5 bar to 8.5 bar. This leads to thermal efficiencies of the ORC in the order of 5 %. Adding a recuperator to the cycle system decreases the operating pressure range but in the end, the thermal efficiency can be increased by 1.5 %-points up to 6.2 %. Finally, an automated control concept is introduced, where the pump is controlled via the fill level measurement system. KW - EBSILON®Professional KW - Micro-Scale ORC Plant KW - Teaching KW - Research KW - Automated Control Concept Y1 - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hs-duesseldorf/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2059 VL - 129 SP - 931 EP - 938 PB - Elsevier ER -