The ever-increasing demand for energy, scarcity of traditional energy sources and severe
environmental issues are, perhaps, the biggest global challenges that need immediate …

How to effectively utilize low and medium temperature energy is one of the solutions to
alleviate the energy shortage and environmental pollution problems. In the past twenty …

Improving thermal efficiency and reducing carbon emissions are the permanent themes for
internal combustion (IC) engines. In the past decades, various advanced strategies have …

Electrical energy storage has been recognised as an underpinning technology to meet the
challenges in the power network arisen from the rapidly increasing penetration of renewable …

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is widely considered as a promising technology to
produce electrical power output from low-grade thermal sources. In the last decade, several …

Studies and applications of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems are increasing in recent
years because of the advantages of them on the recovery of low temperature heat sources …

The selection of the cycle configuration, working fluid and operating parameters is crucial for
the economic profitability of Organic Rankine Cycle systems using low to medium …

A small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) can be used to harness the waste heat from an
internal combustion engine. In this paper, the characteristic of a novel system combining a …

Energy conversion efficiency is one of the most important features of power systems as it
greatly influences the economic balance. The efficiency can be increased in many ways …

Optimisation of organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) for binary cycle applications could play a
major role in determining the competitiveness of low to moderate renewable sources. An …