A solar-powered traveling-wave thermoacoustic electricity generator |
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Authors: | Zhanghua Wu Wei Dai Man Man Ercang Luo |
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Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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Abstract: | Traveling-wave thermoacoustic electricity generator is a new external-combustion type device capable of converting heat such as solar energy into electric power. In this paper, a 1 kW solar-powered traveling-wave thermoacoustic electricity generation system is designed and fabricated. The system consists of a traveling-wave thermoacoustic electricity generator, a solar dish collector and a heat receiver. In the preliminary tests, using electric cartridge heaters to simulate the solar energy, a maximum electric power of 481 W and a maximum thermal-to-electric efficiency of 15.0% were achieved with 3.5 MPa pressurized helium and 74 Hz working frequency. Then, after integrating the traveling-wave thermoacoustic electricity generator with the solar dish collector and the heat receiver, the solar-powered experiments were performed. In the experiments, a maximum electric power of about 200 W was obtained. However, due to the solar dish collector problems, the heating temperature of the receiver was much lower than expected. Optimizations of the collector and the heat receiver are under way. |
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