Regulation law of turbine and generator in organic Rankine cycle power generation experimental system

Abstract

In the performance experiment of organic Rankine cycle power generation experimental system, the load-resistance-regulation method is one of the most important regulation methods. However, the regulation law has not been clear enough to guide the experiment, which is unfavorable to the experimental research on organic Rankine cycle. In this paper the regulation law of turbine and generator by the load-resistance-regulation method is studied theoretically and experimentally. The results show that when the thermal cycle parameters keep constant, the turbine speed increases with the increase of load resistance and there is a maximum value of transmission-generator efficiency with the variation of the turbine speed; when the turbine speed and generator speed keep constant, the transmission-generator efficiency decreases and gradually tends to zero with the increase of load resistance.

Keywords

organic Rankine cycle (ORC) / regulation law / load-resistance-regulation method

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