A NOVEL REFRIGERATION SYSTEM FOR REFRIGERATED TRUCKS INCORPORATING ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE

摘要

An integrated refrigeration system combined an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) and a vapor compressionrefrigerating (VCR) system is proposed for the refrigerated trucks. In which the ORC system is designed torecover the exhaust heat from the engine and the VCR system is employed to provide cooling capacity tokeep goods under desired thermal conditions, and the VCR system is totally driven by the electricitygenerated in the ORC system. In this work, the thermal and economic performance for a 4.2m lengthrefrigerated truck is investigated through comparing with a conventional refrigeration system. The resultsindicate that the proposed system holds advantages regarding the overall thermal and economic performancecompared with the conventional one. It is verified that ORC system can guarantee the amount of theelectricity for VCR system. Moreover, diesel consumption can be reduced and the cost will be cut downduring refrigerated transport with the proposed system.