Waste Heat-to-Power Using Scroll Expander for Organic Rankine Bottoming Cycle Award Number: DE-EE0005767 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.11 Advanced Manufacturing Offices Date: 03/03/2016 Location(s): MA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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March 3, 2016
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Waste Heat-to-Power Using Scroll Expander for Organic Rankine Bottoming Cycle
Award Number: DE-EE0005767
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.11
Advanced Manufacturing Offices
Date: 03/03/2016
Location(s): MA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to TIAX LLC to develop a novel, scalable scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste-heat-recovery systems that can be used to convert medium-grade waste heat to electric power in a wide range of advanced manufacturing industries, and to then test that expander in laboratory and field environments.
This award previously received a NEPA determination (GFO-0005767-001; CX-A9, CX-B3.6; 7/3/2013) for information gathering, data analysis, laboratory research and development activities (Tasks 1-12, 14, and 16-18) as described in the Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO). The SOPO associated with this phase of the project has had tasks re-arranged. Task 15 was originally restricted and now appears as Task 17. Task 13 was originally restricted and now appears as both Task 13 and Task 16. For the purposes of this review we will regard Task 15 as permitted activities and Tasks 16 and 17 as restricted activities. Therefore, this NEPA determination will review deployment and field testing activities associated with Tasks 13, 16, and 17 as described in the SOPO.