One of the first commercial waste heat power
generation plants using the Organic Rankine Cycle
was implemented by TURBODEN using the exhaust
gas from a Cupola Furnace in Torbole, Italy. During
the same time period, another plant came up at
7 Heat recovery in Energy Intensive Industries, (HREII), Diagram for a
preliminary estimation of the potential of ORC based heat recovery system,
September 2010, http://www.hreii.eu/public/Diagram%20potentiality_ENG.
pdf)
8 ORCycle, Turn Waste Heat into Electricity by Using an Organic Rankine
Cycle, April 2011 http://www.orcycle.be/publicaties_bestanden/
Paper1_2nd%20ECP%20ORC_final.pdf
Heidelberg Cement in Lengfurt, Germany in 1998 by
ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, where the clinker cooler
exhaust air at 270°C served as a heat input to an ORC
system. After the successes of these installations,
many industries all over the world have used ORC
systems to convert their waste heat in to electrical
energy. Some of these industries are Glass Plants,
Thermal Oxidizers, Paint Ovens, Ovens, Brick Ovens,
Cement Processing, Ore Processing, Petrochemicals
etc.