Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids

Off-highway vehicles contribute significantly to environmental pollution, underscoring the need for effective waste heat recovery solutions. Organic Rankine cycles (ORC) recover waste heat from exhaust emissions, converting it into useful power, which helps reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissi...

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Main Authors: Fuhaid Alshammari, Maha Alharbi, Sattam Alharbi
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-07-01
Series:Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25004836
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description Off-highway vehicles contribute significantly to environmental pollution, underscoring the need for effective waste heat recovery solutions. Organic Rankine cycles (ORC) recover waste heat from exhaust emissions, converting it into useful power, which helps reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions. This study presents a reheat ORC system with a two-stage radial turbine using R21, a wet fluid, at various reheat pressures. The results show that using R21 at a reheat pressure of 1100 kPa leads to substantial improvements in turbine power (39.5 %), efficiency (21.54 %), and system size (86.27 %) compared to the dry fluid R123 with conventional ORCs. Additionally, engine power and brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) improved by 17 % and 15.73 %, respectively, after implementing the reheat ORC.
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spelling doaj-art-3e6c40ef7c1c40fdadbba00fe7dc9e822025-08-20T02:04:37ZengElsevierCase Studies in Thermal Engineering2214-157X2025-07-017110622310.1016/j.csite.2025.106223Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluidsFuhaid Alshammari0Maha Alharbi1Sattam Alharbi2Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering College, University of Hail, Hail, 2440, Saudi Arabia; Corresponding author.Biology Department, Science College, University of Hail, Hail, 2440, Saudi ArabiaMechanical Engineering Department, Engineering College, University of Hail, Hail, 2440, Saudi ArabiaOff-highway vehicles contribute significantly to environmental pollution, underscoring the need for effective waste heat recovery solutions. Organic Rankine cycles (ORC) recover waste heat from exhaust emissions, converting it into useful power, which helps reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions. This study presents a reheat ORC system with a two-stage radial turbine using R21, a wet fluid, at various reheat pressures. The results show that using R21 at a reheat pressure of 1100 kPa leads to substantial improvements in turbine power (39.5 %), efficiency (21.54 %), and system size (86.27 %) compared to the dry fluid R123 with conventional ORCs. Additionally, engine power and brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) improved by 17 % and 15.73 %, respectively, after implementing the reheat ORC.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25004836Reheat organic Rankine cycleOff-highway vehiclesTwo-stage radial inflow turbineWet fluidsBSFC
spellingShingle Fuhaid Alshammari
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Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Reheat organic Rankine cycle
Off-highway vehicles
Two-stage radial inflow turbine
Wet fluids
BSFC
title Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
title_full Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
title_fullStr Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
title_short Enhanced thermal efficiency in off-highway vehicles using a reheat organic Rankine cycle with a two-stage radial turbine and wet fluids
title_sort enhanced thermal efficiency in off highway vehicles using a reheat organic rankine cycle with a two stage radial turbine and wet fluids
topic Reheat organic Rankine cycle
Off-highway vehicles
Two-stage radial inflow turbine
Wet fluids
BSFC
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25004836
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