E|Home-Center: HomeORC

E|Home-Center: HomeORC – Mikro-CHP with Organic Rankine Cycles

The project HomeORC faces the implementation of an micro-CHP solution for single and multi family houses.

Term: 01.04.2015-30.03.2018

Researcher support

ehomecenter

E-Home Center

Funded by the government

freistaat-bayern

Freistaat Bayern

Partners

orcan

Orcan Energy AG

 

sww-wunsiedel

SWW Wunsiedel GmbH

 

br

Bernecker + Rainer Industrie Elektronik GmbH

A mile-stone for the german energy transition is the decentralization of the energy production. Small-scale and high efficient combined heat and power plants (CHP) which provide heat and electrical energy are ideal. These plants merge the commonly split generation of heat and power and can, therefore, reach an overall efficiency of up to 90 %.

In this project the institute of energy process engineering and the institute for factory automation and production systems of the FAU are working on a new and simple 1 kWel micro-scale CHP setup. In the first step a commercial pellets firing system is linked with an organic Rankine cycle which is built with mass-produced parts by Orcan Energy. In addition, inexpensive and proven-in-use hot-water storage tanks are used as an energy buffer and for storage, resulting in reduced investment costs. In order to achieve an efficient and profitable setup, this system is embedded into a smart home environment. The second step is the integration and link of the ORC with a high efficient micro-fluidized bed furnace.

The feasibility and the economy of the system will be prospected in a one-year field test.

 

 

Contact:

Dr.-Ing. Dominik Müller

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lehrstuhl für Energieverfahrenstechnik