Organic Rankine Cycle: Infinity Turbine Presents the 10 kw Waste Heat to Power ORC Generator

The worlds first production Infinity Turbine IT10 5-12 kw waste heat to power generator, based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbine that generates electricity.

http://www.infinityturbine.com

This video shows our first prototype running on R134 refrigerant. The turbine is turning (no load) at about 20,000 rpm and with load at about 8,000 rpm. Most of the noise will be taken care of by use of a muffler system for the feed pump. The high pitch whine is the turbine. Design sound is about 45 dB.

The first production units will be with permanent magnet alternators. Custom AC units in 50 hz or 60 hz will be available shortly.

Used in geothermal, solar and waste heat (industrial waste heat, gas turbine waste heat, diesel engine waste heat). Excess heat from the system output can be used for CHP applications, including desalination, hot water, air conditioning, chiller and process heat.

The turbine will operate off low grade industrial waste heat. It will also operate from geothermal, hot springs, oil well producer water or solar collector heat in the 70-150 C range.

The evaporator and condenser exit may operate in conjunction with a secondary heat exchanger for CHP hot water or chiller applications. It may also be used in tandem with a CHP, air cooling tower, or ground based geothermal system.

The IT10 is a 5-12 kilowatt power producing unit which operates off of waste heat, by vaporizing and pressurizing a environmentally friendly refrigerant which spins a turbine generator.

The unit produces 48 Volts DC. A standard inverter can convert the VDC to AC power, stand-alone or grid connect, and in 50hz or 60hz.

The IT10 is a rack-mounte plug-and-play ORC unit which can be numbered up in series to 100 kw. For AC applications, we're offering a fully enclosed silent generation unit.

For larger applications, we have the IT250 and IT500.

For Geothermal applications (Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS)), you may utilize oil and gas wells, or abandoned wells that reach depths to get temperatures greater than 150 deg. C. In general, you may sink a deep well anywhere in the continental USA around a depth of 15,000 ft to reach this temperature. The diameter of the well will determine the maximum power you can reach with this type of power generating system. Another example of utilizing geothermal resources is at Chena Hot Springs, in Alaska, or The Geysers in northern California, or Puna Geothermal Venture in Hawaii, or Mammoth-Pacific geothermal power plants at Casa Diablo in California.

For diesel generator sets (CHP), you can first use the heat to make additional power, then still use the leftover heat for CHP.

For Solar Options you can use resource heat from parabolic trough solar, tube solar, or other means of solar heated thermal liquid.

Evaporator Exit Heat: Can be used for saltwater desalination, fresh water maker, chiller, hot water or additional process heat, such as drying and other applications (lumber dry kiln, firewood dry kiln, hardwood drykiln, greenhouse, etc.).

Condenser Exit Heat: Can be used for the production of secondary energy products, like hot water, chilled water or district heating, such as in radiant floor heating, or greenhouse heat.

This system may be able to access renewable (green) energy credits, as well as CO2 offset credits, which are worth as much as 25 Euro a ton.

This system is similar in function to the system at Chena Hot Springs, where a organic Rankine cycle is used to produce power from a geothermal source.

For more information:

http://www.infinityturbine.com

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