Entropea Labs products

Rankine cycles have been used throughout the industrial history to convert thermal energy into kinetic energy and/or electricity. Rankine cycles work by evaporating a working fluid at a high pressure (cycle top pressure), energy is subsequently extracted from the working fluid by means of an expansion process (pressure reduction to bottom pressure), and finally the working fluid is condensed and re-pressurised thus resetting the thermodynamic cycle.

Entropea Labs designs and assembles high efficiency compact heat engine power units.  By introducing a simple and elegant design and combining it with the state of the art Organic Rankine Cycle ORC technology for small-scale distributed power generation applications, Entropea offers to its customers a better more efficient alternative to traditional ORC systems. The high efficiency power units are available in a range of power outputs to match most standard applications optimally.

Entropea specialises in the development of high-pressure high temperature heat exchangers. Entropea’s heat exchangers have been exposed to extreme conditions (e.g. high temperature exhaust gases), retaining their effectiveness. Entropea’s heat exchangers have been designed and tested to have zero invasiveness and provide minimal backpressure to the genset engine exhaust gases. Preliminary concept design, CFD design, CAD/CAM design, manufacturing and testing of unconventional heat exchangers are achieved using state of the art computer codes developed by our team and research partners.

Entropea’s engineering team develops the architecture of the power systems to condition the electrical power output to match final utilization.
A close collaboration between the departments results in optimum dedicated embedded control systems for the thermodynamic Rankine cycle. High frequency inverters are used for high efficiency energy conversion and industry standard PLCs offer high reliability of the ORC controller. Entropea’s re-gen system is very easily interfaceable with our customer’s PLC via industry standard communication protocols.