Verdicorp Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine Introduction ©Verdicorp, Inc.1.

Verdicorp Organic Rankine Cycle

TurbineIntroduction

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Executive Summary What is an Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine

Verdicorp History & Development

The early years: Manufacturing & Multistack

Developing the platform: Turbocor and Danfoss Turbocor

Creating an ORC Turbine: Verdicorp

The Product

Verdicorp Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine

The Markets

Waste Heat Recovery

Geothermal

Solar Thermal

Biomass

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What is an Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine? The Process

A high molecular mass fluid (Honeywell Genetron R245fa) is evaporated (boiled) to produce vapor (gas) at high pressure (1).

The high pressure gas is expanded through the Verdicorp Turbo Generator turbine, converting it into kinetic energy (in the form of rotation).

A high efficiency, high speed permanent magnet generator connected to the turbine wheel converts the rotational kinetic energy into electrical energy.

Once the gas has expanded it flows into a condenser, where heat is rejected and it condenses back into liquid state

The liquid is then pumped back to high pressure

The liquid passes through the liquid heater and evaporator where it becomes a high pressure gas and starts the cycle over again (1)

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Verdicorp History & Development The Early Years: Manufacturing & Multistack

1970’s: Verdicorp founder & CEO, Mr Ron Conry operates a air conditioning service and repair business in Melbourne, Australia

At a clients request, Ron manufactures a replacement compressor wheel for their chiller, offering significant cost and time saving over the OEM replacement part.

The idea for a modular chiller, that can be transported in a goods lift and assembled onsite is hatched.

1980’s: The modular chiller concept is developed further and Multistack Chillers is the result.

Multistack grows to have multiple international manufacturing sites and sales agencies, by the late 80’s Multistack is ordering over 30,000 compressors per year.

1990’s: Ron Conry leaves Multistack to develop an oil free, high speed, magnetic bearing refrigeration compressor – Turbocor is born.

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Verdicorp History & Development Turbocor and Danfoss Turbocor

1992: Ron Conry leaves Multistack to develop an oil free, high speed, magnetic bearing refrigeration compressor – Turbocor is born.

1999: After the initial development of the Turbocor compressor is undertaken in Melbourne, Australia. The offer of significant funding from the Quebec (Canada) government to commercialize the product in Canada, Turbocor, along with many of the Melbourne based employees, moves to Canada!

2001: The first complete chiller with a Turbocor compressor is sold in California.

2004: Danfoss purchase 50% of Turbocor and forms the JV company, Danfoss Turbocor.

2007: Danfoss Turbocor relocate manufacturing to a brand new, state of the art manufacturing facility in Tallahassee, Florida.

2009: Ron Conry licenses all the non-refrigeration uses of the Turbocor technology platform from Danfoss Turbocor and Verdicorp is born.

2013: Danfoss purchase the remaining 50% of Danfoss Turbocor and it becomes a wholly owned subsidiary in the Danfoss Commercial Compressor division.

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Verdicorp History & Development Verdicorp

2009: Ron Conry licenses all the non-refrigeration uses of the Turbocor platform from Danfoss Turbocor and Verdicorp is born. Verdicorp focus on developing two main applications for the advanced Turbocor magnetic bearing platform

Organic Rankine Cycle Turbines

Waste water blowers

2011: First Verdicorp Turbo Expanders are supplied to a large industrial partner in Germany. They use the Verdicorp Turbo Expander as the basis for their Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine development. Over dozens of systems are installed on the back of bio-gas power plants.

2011: University of Queensland order a custom containerized ORC package for their Geothermal Centre of Excellence.

2012: Design of Verdicorp’s own complete commercial Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine product range begins.

2013: The first four commercial Verdicorp ORC Turbines are being produced at the Smardt Chiller manufacturing plant in Bayswater, Victoria, Australia.

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The Product Verdicorp Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine

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The ProductVerdicorp Turbo Expander – Shares most components with the Turbocor Refrigerant Compressor:

What makes them different?

Magnetic bearings provide Near frictionless operation Extremely smooth & quiet (72dBA) – even at 42,000 RPM Oil free systems – improve efficiency & reliability

Liquid refrigerant cooling enables Compact electronics Light-weight highly integrated assembly Low thermal stress

50% smaller & 80% lighter than traditional designs

Single rotating assembly = simplicity – reliability – long life

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The Product: Award Winning Technology

Frost & Sullivan for Compressor Technology Leadership

ASHRAE / ASHRAE / AHR AHR

Energy Energy Innovation Innovation

AwardAward

Canadian Canadian EnergyEnergy

Efficiency Efficiency

AwardAward

United States EPA United States EPA ClimateClimate

Protection Award Protection Award

Danfoss Turbocor Danfoss Turbocor is certified: is certified:

ISO 9001:2000ISO 9001:2000

J&E Hall Medal for Ron Conry

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The Product : Economies of Scale

There are over 40,000 Turbocor modules operating throughout the world.

Every month, hundreds of chillers from McQUAY; SMARDT; PowerPax and others are built and shipped with Turbocor compressors.

High volume production of Turbocor makes the most advanced technologies economically viable for the Verdicorp turbo generator.

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Verdicorp is leveraging the PowerPax &

SMARDT chiller business to build the

Verdicorp ORC systems:

Heat exchangers

Piping

Framework

Electrical and electronic components

Manufacturing facilities

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The Product

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Verdicorp pre-packaged ORC systems:Modular construction

Scalable

Turbo-generator

Evaporator & Condensor

Pump

Controls

Power Electronics

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The Product

Water Cooled: 20 to 515 kW

Air Cooled: 20-175 kW

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Verdicorp ORC

Condenser water Out

T

T

T170 deg.C

90 deg.C

125 deg.C

90 deg.C

M

Super Heater

Evaporator

Liq Htr 2

Liq Htr 1

T

T

T

T

Condenser Water In29.5deg.C

35.0deg.C

M

F

T

T

M

75 deg.C

Jacket water In

Jacket water Out

T

T

T

P

Engine ORC UnitExhaust and Jacket Heat


Water Cooled ORC


Turbo GeneratorInlet Valve – Electro Pneumatic

Bypass Valve – Electro PneumaticBypass Line goes to expander outlet

Heat Exchanger Section

Liquid Pump

Thermal Pipe Connections

Line and Input Reactor

Load Bank

High Power Box

HMI

Control Box

Standard ORC


Water Cooled Condenser


1740mm (68.5”)

1276mm (50.25”)

17

80

mm

(7

0.0

”)

Standard ORC


1740mm (68.5”)

1276mm (50.25”)

25

13

mm

(9

9.0

”)

Casey Unit


Geographic Focus:Australia, Asia & Europe

Select regions of Americas

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High electric prices

Carbon markets

Government incentives

Cultural bias towards environmental stewardship

The Markets

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The Markets Waste Heat Recovery

Internal Combustion Engines & turbines

Industrial Process

Geothermal Low Enthalpy

Well Head

Small Scale

Solar Thermal Biomass



Internal Combustion Engines & turbines

Recover thermal energy from exhaust gas (HT) and jacket water (LT)

Suitable for Engines 300kW+

Suitable for engines using Natural Gas, Bio-Gas, Syngas & Diesel fuels

Primarily aimed at electrical generators

Can also be used in mechanical drive (i.e. gas compression) and propulsion applications



Industrial Process

Glass Furnaces

Cement Plants

Steel & Aluminum Smelters

Oil Refineries & Polymer Plants

Aluminum Extrusion

Kilns

Saw Mills


The Markets Geothermal

Low Enthalpy

90-180°C

Brine and/or Steam

Existing wells no longer producing high pressure steam

Well Head Solutions

Generate power as soon as the first wells are drilled

Generate power from test wells

Small Scale

Mining

Remote Communities

Islands


The Markets Solar Thermal

Operates at 110-150°C input

Does not require parabolic trough collectors

Thermal storage options available

Solar thermal hybrid with existing heat source


The Markets Biomass


Biomass Furnace


BIOMASS FURNACEOPTIONAL LOW TEMPERATURE

HEAT SOURCE FOR PRE-HEATING

Questions and Answers


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