23rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Molecular Design of Working Fluid Mixtures for Organic Rankine Cycles

Athanasios I. Papadopoulos^a, Mirko Stijepovic^b, Patrick Linke^b, Panos Seferlis^c and Spyros Voutetakis^a,    ^aChemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, P.O. Box 60361, Thermi 57001, Greece, ^bChemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar,P.O. Box 23874, Doha, Qatar, ^cDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 424, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece

Abstract

This work presents a Computer-Aided Molecular Design (CAMD) method for the synthesis and selection of binary working fluid mixtures used in Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC). The method consists of two stages, initially seeking ...