Note: Full project documentation is available in German.
This study was created together with Tobias Plenk. It evaluates an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for converting thermal-oil waste heat into electricity. My part of the work focused on comparing different working media, while the overall process was modelled as a university project in process simulation with a focus on feasible operating points and thermodynamic consistency.
The work compares different temperature and pressure settings for the ORC and checks them against heat-exchanger constraints. The workflow is intended to make the parameter study reproducible and to support a clear assessment of the cycle behaviour under varying boundary conditions.