The Development of an Online Design Tool for Organic Rankine Cycle

摘要

In this work, an online engineering application, Expert Design Tool (EDT), with expertise for equipment selection and performance assessment is proposed. The aim of developing EDT is to build an online tool to aid engineers or researchers in carrying out preliminary design exercises and performance evaluation for energy conversion into electricity using organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems. The development of online EDT is associated with different software. Consequently, software integration into the online environment is explored as a central task. In addition, the status quo of ORC design tool is discussed, and the architecture and the working principle of online EDT are presented in detail. The EDT is feasible for different level users and can provide them with timely access to relevant technical information from an enriched database and give practical recommendations on technical decision-making.