Yamada, Noboru; Watanabe, Masataka; Hoshi, Akira - In: Energy 49 (2013) C, pp. 137-145
The first experiment on a pumpless Rankine-type cycle (PRC) with a practical expander was performed to verify the … efficient owing to the low efficiency of the working fluid pump. The PRC mainly consists of a scroll expander, two heat … exchangers, and switching valves for the expander and heat exchangers. A switching valves method that does not require the use of …