Power plants release a massive amount of waste heat at very low temperatures. Posing a challenge for efficient conversion into useful work through conventional methods. By selecting appropriate working fluids, low-grade power cycles can solve this problem by converting waste heat to electricity. The present work dealt with waste heat utilization using the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) from a 400 MWe coal based supercritical Pressurized Pulverized Combined Cycle (PPCC). The working fluid for the ORC is the refrigerant R245fa. High-ash (HA) Indian coal and low-ash (LA) South African coal are used as fuel to assess the plant’s ability to produce electricity under ambient conditions in India. The simulation flowsheet program “Cycle-Tempo” models and simulates different plant layouts. The thermodynamic assessment unveiled that the standalone plant has energy and exergy efficiencies of 43.46% and 39.87% for HA & 45.42% and 43.84% for LA, respectively. According to this study, the proposed plant has energy and exergy efficiencies of 44.63% and 40.94% for HA & 46.69% and 45.07% for LA, respectively. Moreover, using ORC, the waste heat generates additional electricity of 9.38 MWe, with an energy efficiency of 12.92% and exergy efficiency of 34.63%.
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