Study on the Combustion and Thermoelectric Conversion Characteristics of Micro-Combustors

Author

Yongsheng, Zhang ; Junhu, Zhou ; Weijuan, Yang ; Maosheng, Liu ; Kefa, Cen

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Condition Monitoring & Control for Power Plant Equip. of Minist. of Educ., North China Electr. Power Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 June 2010

Firstpage

5659

Lastpage

5662

Abstract

The combustion characteristics of three microcombustors were compared, and the thermoelectric experiments related were carried out. Combustor I and II were made up from quartz and combustor III was made up from stainless steel. The Bi2Te3 alloy was adopted as thermoelectric material. Some conclusions about fuel flux, temperature, voltage output, power output and were drew. It is found that the total thermoelectric efficiency increase with the increase of thermoelectric surface. In our experiments, the maximum total conversion efficiency is 18.04%.

Keywords

combustion; quartz; stainless steel; thermoelectric conversion; combustion; micro-combustors; quartz; stainless steel; thermoelectric conversion efficiency; thermoelectric material; Actuators; Combustion; Generators; Laboratories; Materials; Micromechanical devices; Sensors; conversion efficiency; micro-combustion; thermoelectric;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6880-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iCECE.2010.1375

Filename

5631593