Lately there have been plenty of advancements in the field of alternative energy sources. Conferences are being held, projects completed, and devices invented and patented, all of which means we are entering an era during which we will be able to stop exploiting Earth’s oil supplies for generating energy. ORC is one of the things that will help us do this, and in this post we are going to talk about what it is and what its main advantages are.

Organic Rankine Cycle (http://exergy-orc.com/technology/orc) , which is usually shortened to ORC, is the name that has been given to a thermodynamic cycle the purpose of which is to convert heat into energy. It features a closed loop that is usually supplied with a compound of hydrocarbons as the working fluid. The heat that gets converted into energy is supplied using the loop and comes from an outside source. …