The ever-increasing demand for energy, scarcity of traditional energy sources and severe
environmental issues are, perhaps, the biggest global challenges that need immediate …

This article reviews recent advances in the understanding of turbulent flows of non-ideal
gases through the use of high-fidelity direct and large eddy simulations. In particular, the …

Optimisation of organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) for binary cycle applications could play a
major role in determining the competitiveness of low to moderate renewable sources. An …

Organic rankine cycles (ORC) are renowned to be attractive energy conversion systems for
the thermal energy sources in the small-to-medium power range. A critical component in the …

ORGANIC Rankine cycle (ORC) turbogenerators are a viable option as stationary energy
converters for external heat sources, in the low power range (from a few kW up to a few MW) …

During the last decade, organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbogenerators have become very
attractive for the exploitation of low-temperature heat sources in the small to medium power …

There is a growing interest in organic Rankine cycle turbogenerators because of their ability
to efficiently utilize external heat sources at low-to-medium temperature in the small-to …

Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a promising method to convert low-grade thermal energy to
electricity. The working fluid and the expander are two decisive factors of the ORC …

There is a growing interest in organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbogenerators because they
are suitable as sustainable energy converters. ORC turbogenerators can efficiently utilize …

A novel blow-down wind tunnel is currently being commissioned at the Politecnico di Milano,
Italy, to investigate real-gas behavior of organic fluids operating at subsonic-supersonic …