Monday, September 17, 2018

Science & Technology: New Turbine Design Projected to be 40% More Efficient than Current ORC Systems

RadMax Collaborating on New Power Cycle Technology Device to be part of PNNL R&D project (News Release)


REGI U.S., Inc. of Washington State, USA and its wholly owned subsidiary, RadMax Technologies, Inc. are pleased to be working with a Department of Energy national laboratory.  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)’s research project is funded by DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office. It is the first of several projects currently being jointly pursued by RadMax Technologies and PNNL.

RadMax is supporting the PNNL, in Richland, WA to develop and demonstrate a new, reduced cost energy system. PNNL’s patent-pending Harmonic Adsorption Recuperative Power (HARP) system implements a new non-condensing thermodynamic cycle projected to be 40% more efficient than commercially available organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems, when paired with a suitable low temperature heat source.

RadMax will design and build an axial-vane, rotary gas expander that will operate in the 1-to-2 kW range.

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