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In this paper, the subcritical saturated organic Rankine cycle system with a heat source temperature of 100~150 \u00b0C is studied with four different organic working fluids. The variations of the exergy efficiencies for the single-stage\/two-stage systems, heaters, and condensers with the heat source temperature are analyzed. Based on the condition when the exergy efficiency is maximized for the two-stage system, the effects of the mass split ratio of the geothermal fluid flowing into the preheaters and the exergy efficiency of the heater are studied. The main conclusions include: The exergy efficiency of the two-stage system is affected by the evaporation temperatures of the organic working fluid in both the high temperature and low temperature cycles and has a maximum value. Under the same heat sink and heat source parameters, the exergy efficiency of the two-stage system is larger than that of the single-stage system. For example, when the heat source temperature is 130 \u00b0C, the exergy efficiency of the two-stage system is increased by 9.4% compared with the single-stage system. For the two-stage system, analysis of the four organic working fluids shows that R600a has the highest exergy efficiency, although R600a is only suitable for heat source temperature below 140 \u00b0C, while other working fluids can be used in systems with higher heat source temperatures. The mass split ratio of the fluid in the preheaters of the two-stage system depends on the working fluid and the heat source temperature. As the heat source temperature increases, the range of the split ratio becomes narrower, and the curves are in the shape of an isosceles triangle. Therefore, different working fluids are suitable for different heat source temperatures, and appropriate working fluid and split ratio should be determined based on the heat source parameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23010043","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,30]],"date-time":"2020-12-30T09:35:23Z","timestamp":1609320923000},"page":"43","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Exergy Analysis of Two-Stage Organic Rankine Cycle Power Generation System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Guanglin","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1709-2680","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qingyang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Jinliang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]},{"given":"Zheng","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1403","DOI":"10.1016\/j.energy.2009.11.025","article-title":"A study of organic working fluids on system efficiency of an ORC using low-grade energy sources","volume":"35","author":"Hung","year":"2010","journal-title":"Energy"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ko\u00e7, Y., Ya\u011fl\u0131, H., and Ko\u00e7, A. 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