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Project

Improving the performance of concentrating PV by exploiting the excess heat through a low temperature supercritical organic Rankine cycle
Acronym
CPV/RANKINE
Code
41T01213
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2014
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Electrical power engineering
    • Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
    • Thermodynamics
Keywords
supercritical photovoltaics waste heat organic rankine cycle
 
Project description
 

The project deals with the development, design and experimental investigation of an integrated system, based on the concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) and supercritical organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technologies. The proposed innovative concept deals with the conversion of the CPV/T heat to additional electricity through the Supercritical ORC (SCORC) process.