Vol. 51 No. 1 (2014)   New Products & Technologies
Technical Papers

Low Temperature Heat Recovery for Geothermal Binary Plant

NORIHIRO FUKUDA
NORITO KATSUKI
KAN OGATA
SHOJIRO SAITO
NOBUYUKI HOSHI
KOJI IWAI

The geothermal power plant business of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) provides small-capacity binary power generation systems in addition to conventional large-capacity flash power generation systems in order to respond to the needs of all markets and customers. This binary power generation system can be applied to biomass plant or exhaust heat recovery. This paper presents the advantages and thermal system characteristics of binary systems, as well as the technologies of Turboden s.r.l., which is a group company of MHI and Italian binary power generation system manufacturers that has delivered roughly 250 binary systems, mainly for biomass plants.