Pierobon, Leonardo; Nguyen, Tuong-Van; Larsen, Ulrik; … - In: Energy 58 (2013) C, pp. 538-549
This paper aims at finding the optimal design of MW-size organic Rankine cycles by employing the multi-objective optimization with the genetic algorithm as the optimizer. We consider three objective functions: thermal efficiency, total volume of the system and net present value. The optimization...