Rankine Generator

[TripleSix]

Looking at ways at work to improve the Biomass boiler.

It's running on chicken litter and as such it likes to be run hard, once demand drops off it creates issues.
Summer is difficult because of a low demand for heat from the chickens, but still needed on a night.

We've had someone peddling a Rankine generator, seems ideal, also goes towards reducing the sites sites electricity consumption.


Has anyone got any real world experience of a generator using the Rankine cycle?

Any good?
Reliable?
Efficiency?

 

[555]

Hi. We have put a few in over the years . What water temp can you get up to? Also you need to get rid of low temperature water heat, typically 40ded down to 30deg Which is tricky during the summer. This heat if used correctly can generate a tariff income. What manufacture are you looking at?

 

[TripleSix]

Hi. We have put a few in over the years . What water temp can you get up to? Also you need to get rid of low temperature water heat, typically 40ded down to 30deg Which is tricky during the summer. This heat if used correctly can generate a tariff income. What manufacture are you looking at?

They're built by Star refrigeration.

She tends to run at 94/95*c temp but putting the Rankine iin the backflow from the sheds was mentioned and just let it do its own thing based on available heat?

I was thinking about the heat dump, the farm is right next to a beck, could this be utilised easily?

 

[scotston]

No rhi when used to generate electricity?