Design and performance study of a small-scale waste heat recovery turbine

The paper presents the design process of a radial-axial turbine working with SES36 working fluid. First, the mean-line design process is performed and then the geometry is developed. In the next stage the numerical verification is performed taking into account the real properties of the working fluid. The properties are implemented via a look-up table and by a modified Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state. The presented turbine is characterized by a very small stator outflow angle which is about 4.5◦ but despite this small value, the efficiency of the machine is relatively high and equal to about 88%. The influence of internal leakages has also been investigated.