Concepts NREC Knows About Heat Recovery
Concepts NREC can design custom compact, high-speed, hermetically-sealed turbogenerators based on your-specific needs. These turbogenerators convert low temperature heat to electric power using an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) process.
Concepts NREC also offers design plans and the intellectual property needed to manufacture your own turbogenerator. To find out more about licensing options, please contact info@conceptsnrec.com.
These systems produce electric power by converting thermal energy to electrical energy. And, when site conditions involve temperatures too low for conventional heat recovery systems, ORC processes become the best solution. These are typically defined as any heat source at temperatures below 800oF. In fact, according to one U.S. Department of Energy report, there could be as much as 1.5 to 2.0 quadrillion BTU/year of heat with temperatures below 500oF available from exhaust gas streams in the industrial sector alone. Naturally occurring heat sources may be just as plentiful.
Concepts NREC has developed several ORC energy recovery machines for customers, similar to the one below. The design is a patent-pending, hermetically-sealed design, with an ORC turbine and permanent magnet generator directly coupled that improves mechanical efficiency by up to 10 percentage points over conventional designs.
With its inherent flexibility, our design offers more power and revenue for a given heat source, greatly reduced operating and maintenance costs, increased reliability, and a significantly smaller footprint than any other ORC turbogenerator available in the world today. To consider anything else for low temperature waste heat recovery systems could be an expensive mistake.
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Concepts NREC ORC Technical Papers:
- Development And Testing Of A 250 kWe ORC System Using An Integrated Axial Turbine And High-Speed Generator For 3.7 Bar, A Condensing Steam
Presented At: ASME ORC 2015 - Gas Turbine Waste Heat Recovery Using A 20,000 RPM, Sealless, Turbine Generator/ORC System
Presented At: Symposium of the Industrial Application of Gas Turbines 2015
- Development Of A 300 kWe Integrated Axial Turbine And Generator For ORC Applications- (Presentation Slides)
Presented At: ASME ORC 2013