Welcome to ORCmKit

ORC Modeling Kit (ORCmKit) is a comprehensive open-source library for the modeling of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power systems.

The library has been originally created by Rémi Dickes (University of Liège) and Davide Ziviani (Ghent University and Purdue University) with the aim to provide ,at a single place, open-source, reliable and validated models for the steady-state simulation of ORCs and to encourage the researchers in the field to actively contribute to share their knowlegde and modeling efforts.

Three main programming languages are supported at the moment: Python, Matlab and EES.

• ORCmKit has flexible licensing terms: MIT

• The documentation is available along with examples

• Issues can be reported here.

The ORCmKit library should be referenced as:

• Rémi Dickes, Davide Ziviani, Michel de Paepe, Martijn van den Broek, Sylvain Quoilin, Vincent Lemort, "ORCmKit: an open-source library for organic Rankine cycle modelling and analysis", PROCEEDINGS OF ECOS 2016 - THE 29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EFFICIENCY, COST, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF ENERGY SYSTEMS JUNE 19-23, 2016, PORTOROŽ, SLOVENIA.

The ORCSim library in Python should be referenced as:

• Davide Ziviani, Brandon J. Woodland, Emeline Georges, Eckhard A. Groll, James E. Braun, W. Travis Horton, Martijn van den Broek, Michel de Paepe, "Development and Validation of a Charge Sensitive Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Simulation Tool". Energies 2016, (9)6, 389; doi:10.3390/en9060389

For additional information or requests please contact:

• Rémi Dickes - rdickes@ulg.ac.be
• Davide Ziviani - dziviani@purdue.edu