Optimization of Organic Rankine Cycles for Waste Heat Recovery From Aluminum Production Plants
@article{Castelli2019OptimizationOO, title={Optimization of Organic Rankine Cycles for Waste Heat Recovery From Aluminum Production Plants}, author={Alessandro Francesco Castelli and Cristina Elsido and Roberto Scaccabarozzi and Lars Olof Nord and Emanuele Martelli}, journal={Frontiers in Energy Research}, year={2019} }
This paper presents the optimization of ORCs for recovering waste heat from a hypothetical aluminum production plant to be installed in Norway. The case study is particularly interesting because it features two hot streams at different temperatures (the pot exhaust gases and the cell wall cooling air) which make available about 16 MWth below 250 °C. First, a recently proposed cycle optimization approach is adopted to identify the most promising working fluid and optimize the cycle variables…
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