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Type: | Conference paper |
Title: | Waste-heat-driven thermoacoustic engine and refrigerator |
Author: | Gardner, D. Howard, C. |
Citation: | Proceedings of Acoustics 2009, 2009;. pp.1-4 |
Publisher: | AAS |
Publisher Place: | CD |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
ISBN: | 9780975785577 |
Conference Name: | Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society (2009 : Adelaide, South Australia) |
Statement of Responsibility: | David L. Gardner and Carl Q. Howard |
Abstract: | Thermoacoustic engines are a suitable technology for capturing waste heat to perform useful work. These engines utilise a temperature gradient to encourage high amplitude acoustic waves in a resonant chamber. A standing-wave thermoacoustic prime mover and refrigerator combination has been designed and built. The waste heat source is the exhaust gas stream from a common internal combustion engine. The device was designed such that the prime mover harvests approximately 8% of the available waste heat at cruise, and the refrigerator heat load approximates that of two people. The prime mover and refrigerator combination has no moving parts, and uses helium as a working gas. |
Description (link): | http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/avc/publications/abstract.php?abstract=493 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Environment Institute publications Mechanical Engineering conference papers |
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