Organic Rankine cycle
Variation on the Rankine thermodynamic cycle
Organic Rankine cycle
In thermal engineering, the Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a type of thermodynamic cycle. It is a variation of the Rankine cycle named for its use of an organic, high-molecular-mass fluid (compared to water) whose vaporization temperature is lower than that of water. The fluid allows heat recovery from lower-temperature sources such as biomass combustion, industrial waste heat, geothermal heat, solar ponds etc. The low-temperature heat is converted into useful work, that can itself be converted into electricity. The technology was developed in the late 1950s by Lucien Bronicki and Harry Zvi Tabor. Naphtha engines, similar in principle to ORC but developed for other applications, were in use as early as the 1890s.
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