Energy harvesting from a convection-driven Rijke-Zhao thermoacoustic engine

A convection-driven Rijke-Zhao thermoacoustic engine is developed. It can produce intensive oscillations at two different temperatures. Furthermore, it does not involve any heat exchanger and stack/regenerator, which play critical roles in conduction-driven standing- or travelling-wave engines. Thus...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Zhao, Dan, Chew, Y.
مؤلفون آخرون: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2014
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101854
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18787
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الملخص:A convection-driven Rijke-Zhao thermoacoustic engine is developed. It can produce intensive oscillations at two different temperatures. Furthermore, it does not involve any heat exchanger and stack/regenerator, which play critical roles in conduction-driven standing- or travelling-wave engines. Thus, the Rijke-Zhao engine is much simpler in design and lower cost in fabrication. To demonstrate its potential of energy-harvesting, a design for the conversion of heat into electricity via sound is proposed by integrating Rijke-Zhao engine with a piezoelectricgenerator. The preliminary experimental results are presented. And it is found that 60% more power is generated than that from conduction-driven standing-wave thermoacoustic-piezoelectric resonator [Smoker et al., J. Appl. Phys. 111, 104901, (2012)]. In order to gain insights on the generation mechanism of the thermoacoustic oscillations in the present energy-harvesting system, 2D numerical simulations are conducted. Comparing the numerical results with the experimental one reveals that good quantitative agreement is obtained.