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Uncertainty assessment of equations of state with application to an organic Rankine cycle

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Evaluations of equations of state (EoS) should include uncertainty. This study presents a generic method to analyse EoS from a detailed uncertainty analysis of the mathematical form and the data used to obtain EoS parameter values. The method is illustrated by comparison of Soave–Redlich–Kwong (SRK) cubic EoS with perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory (PC-SAFT) EoS for an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) for heat recovery to power from the exhaust gas of a marine diesel engine using cyclopentane as working fluid. Uncertainties of the EoS input parameters including their corresponding correlation structure, are quantified from experimental measurements using a bootstrap method. Variance-based sensitivity analysis is used to compare the uncertainties from the departure function and the ideal-gas contribution. A Monte Carlo procedure propagates fluid parameter input uncertainty onto the model outputs. Uncertainties in the departure function (SRK or PC-SAFT EoS) dominate the total uncertainties of the ORC model output. For this application and working fluid, SRK EoS has less predictive uncertainty in the process model output than does PC-SAFT EoS, though it cannot be determined if this is due to differences in the data for parameter estimation or in the mathematical form of the EoS or both.

Source: Molecular Physics

DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2016.1275856

Authors: Jérôme Frutiger, Ian Bell, John P. O'Connell, Kenneth Kroenlein, Jens Abildskov, Gürkan Sin

Institutions: Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics

Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Affordable and clean energy

Open Access status: green

Funder: Strategiske Forskningsråd