Clean Cycle™ uses scaled down proven ORC waste heat power generation for smaller scale deployments.
The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) has generated reliable power for decades in large-scale, very large footprint applications all over the world. But most heat wasting applications are found in smaller scales like ordinary reciprocating engines and boilers seen every day.
The Clean Cycle™ waste heat power generator is a new kind of ORC system that’s optimized specifically for the vast majority of small-scale heat-wasting applications.
How it works
Clean Cycle™ captures heat in an evaporator that boils the working fluid, producing vapor.
The vapor expands, spinning the turbine which drives a generator and produces electricity.
The vapor is cooled back to a liquid and pumped back to the evaporator to repeat the process.
This ORC has been deployed thousands of times in a wide range of large-scale applications and large-footprint plants. Heat Recovery Solutions have taken the same principle and optimized it for smaller scales.
The critical innovations
Magnetic bearings
Super-efficient magnetic bearings with self-learning centering capabilities have no metal-on-metal friction, so there’s no need for oil systems and their expensive maintenance demands.
Heat Recovery Solutions Power Conditioning
Instead of gearboxes and mechanical step-down techniques that cause parasitic losses and operating problems, the Clean Cycle™ uses sophisticated power electronics to turn the high frequency output into utility grade power. It’s smarter, simpler and more reliable.
Power factor is 1, so there’s no need for expensive capacitors.
Safe Working Fluid
Most ORC working fluids are hazardous. We use a safe HFC that is ideal for this solution.
These and other innovations are combined with world-class systems expertise to create the industry’s first waste heat power generation optimized to work with lower temperature sources in small-scale applications like these.
The Highlights
- High-efficiency packaged unit
- Environmentally friendly working fluid
- Produces electricity with varying heat inputs
- Power factor of 1 – no need for expensive capacitors
- Attractive payback