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A practical approach for teaching the organic rankine cycles (ORCs) in an advanced thermodynamics course
Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Molés Ribera, Francisco; Mateu-Royo, Carlos DYNA (2020-03)Higher Education Institutions must consider the most recently developed technologies to increase energy efficiency. A significant share of the heat used in industry is wasted while still being at usable temperature levels ... -
Advanced high temperature heat pump configurations using low GWP refrigerants for industrial waste heat recovery: A comprehensive study
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Arpagaus, Cordin; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Bertsch Stefan S. Elsevier (2021-01-02)High temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) have a great potential to improve industrial processes with thermal demand through industrial waste heat recovery and revalorization. Vapor compression HTHPs are very sensitive to the ... -
Comparative analysis of HFO-1234ze(E) and R-515B as low GWP alternatives to HFC-134a in moderately high temperature heat pumps
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Barragán Cervera, Angel Elsevier (2020-12-17)This article provides a theoretical energy performance and carbon footprint analysis of the hydrofluoroolefin HFO-1234ze(E) and the mixture R-515B as low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants to replace the ... -
Experimental comparison of HFO-1234ze(E) and R-515B to replace HFC-134a in heat pump water heaters and moderately high temperature heat pumps
Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Barragán Cervera, Angel Elsevier (2021-09)Heat pumps are gaining interest to replace fossil fuel burners with the increase of the share of renewable sources in the electricity generation mix. Moreover, low global warming potential (GWP) alternatives offer a ... -
Experimental exergy and energy analysis of a novel high-temperature heat pump with scroll compressor for waste heat recovery
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Moles, Fran; Amat-Albuixech, Marta Elsevier (2019-11-01)The industrial sector demands novel sustainable energy systems to advance in its decarbonisation and meet the targets of the Paris Agreement for the climate change mitigation. High-Temperature Heat Pumps (HTHPs) are being ... -
Geothermal storage integration into a supermarket’s CO2 refrigeration system
Karampour, Mazyar; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Rogstam, Jörgen; Sawalha, Samer Elsevier (2019-05-23)This paper investigates the integration of geothermal storage into state-of-the-art CO2 trans-critical booster systems. The objective is to evaluate the impact of this integration on energy efficiency. Three scenarios of ... -
HCFO-1224yd(Z) as HFC-245fa drop-in alternative in low temperature ORC systems: Experimental analysis in a waste heat recovery real facility.
Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Amat-Albuixech, Marta; Moles, Fran; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Collado, Roberto Elsevier (2020-02-15)The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) has been growing in importance as a technology for producing electricity from low temperature waste and renewable heat sources. In small-scale applications, the most used working fluid has ... -
High temperature heat pump integration into district heating network
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Sawalha, Samer; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín Elsevier (2020-04-15)This study illustrates the potential of high temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) integration into district heating network (DHN) through a twofold approach, using DHN as a heat sink and source. It is used as a heat sink of HTHP ... -
High-temperature heat simulator (Heatpack) for application i computer laboratory sessions for engineering students
Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Barragán Cervera, Angel OmniaScience (2020)A significant amount of energy in the form of heat is lost in industrial processes once it is used in specific processes. Among different technologies, high-temperature heat pumps (HTHP) are a valuable method of recovering ... -
Multi-objective optimization of a novel reversible High-Temperature Heat Pump-Organic Rankine Cycle (HTHP-ORC) for industrial low-grade waste heat recovery
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Peris, Bernardo; Moles, Fran; Amat-Albuixech, Marta Elsevier (2019-08-08)Nowadays, a high amount of industrial thermal energy is still lost due to the lack of competitive solutions for energy revalorization. Facing this challenge, this paper presents a novel technology, based on a reversible ... -
Optimisation of high-temperature heat pump cascades with internal heat exchangers using refrigerants with low global warming potential
Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Moles, Fran; Amat-Albuixech, Marta; Barragán Cervera, Angel Elsevier (2018-12-15)High-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) based on vapour compression can be used for industrial low-grade waste heat valorisation, which can aid in mitigating climate change. Currently, the performance of HTHPs ... -
Semi-empirical and environmental assessment of the low GWP refrigerant HCFO-1224yd(Z) to replace HFC-245fa in high temperature heat pumps
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín Elsevier (2021-02-22)This paper investigates a promising low-GWP refrigerant, HCFO-1224yd(Z), as an environmentally friendly replacement for HFC-245fa in high temperature heat pumps (HTHPs). First, the thermophysical properties of both fluids ... -
Theoretical evaluation of different high-temperature heat pump configurations for low-grade waste heat recovery
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Amat-Albuixech, Marta; Moles, Fran Elsevier (2018-06)The introduction of high-temperature heat pumps for waste heat recovery with low GWP refrigerants can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector. This article evaluates the energy performance and the ... -
Theoretical performance evaluation of ejector and economizer with parallel compression configurations in high temperature heat pumps
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Barragán Cervera, Angel Elsevier (2020-07-25)Climate change evolution urges us to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As one of the main contributors, the industrial sector requires cleaner methods of heat production, such as high temperature heat pumps ... -
Thermo-economic optimization of small-scale Organic Rankine Cycle: A case study for low-grade industrial waste heat recovery
Peris, Bernardo; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Molés, Francisco; Gutierrez Trashorras, Antonio J.; Amat-Albuixech, Marta Elsevier (2020-10-01)This work is focused on a case study of a small-scale Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) adopted for electricity production from low-grade industrial waste heat recovery. This kind of applications raises a great interest due to ... -
Thermodynamic analysis of low GWP alternatives to HFC-245fa in high-temperature heat pumps: HCFO-1224yd(Z), HCFO-1233zd(E) and HFO-1336mzz(Z)
Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Amat-Albuixech, Marta; Moles, Fran Elsevier (2019-04)This paper analyses the feasibility of HCFO-1224yd(Z), HCFO-1233zd(E) and HFO-1336mzz(Z), three low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants, as alternatives to HFC-245fa in high-temperature heat pump (HTHP) systems for ... -
Ultralow-temperature refrigeration systems: Configurations and refrigerants to reduce the environmental impact
Mota-Babiloni, Adrián; Joybari, Mahmood Mastani; Navarro-Esbrí, Joaquín; Mateu-Royo, Carlos; Amat-Albuixech, Marta; Moles, Fran Elsevier (2019-11-18)Several environmental protection policies have been enforced restricting working fluids with high global warming potential (GWP) values used in many types of refrigeration and heat pump systems. However, ultralow-temperature ...