Heat engines convert only approximately 20% to 50% of the supplied energy into mechanical work whereas the remaining energy is lost as rejected heat. Although some of the energy lost is intrinsic to the nature of an engine and cannot be fully overcome (such as energy lost due to friction of moving parts), a large amount of energy can potentially be recovered. This paper presents a heat transfer analysis of a WHE for recovering wasted exhaust energy whilst transferring energy to different organic working fluid used in the OrganicRankine Cycle. The types of considered fluids are R-134a, Propane and Ammonia. The results show that the Ammonia has the highesteffectiveness of 0.25. The maximum heat transferrate of 48.5 kW was recovered using the Ammonia at the exhaust gas temperature of 700°C.

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