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Thermophysics and Aeromechanics

2016 year, number 4

Evaluating the efficiency of thermo-electric conversion of heat from gas com-bustion in a small-scale system with counterflow heat exchange

S.S. Minaev1, I.A. Terletskii1, andВ  S. Kumar2
1Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
2Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
E-mail: iterlik@mail.ru
Keywords: combustion, thermoelectricity, microsystems
Pages: 581–589

Abstract

The efficiency of thermoelectric conversion of heat from gas combustion was evaluated in a small-scale system consisting of two channels with opposing gas flows and thermocouples located in the separating wall. Combustion occurred in the chamber fed with fresh mixture heated by combustion products through heat-conducting walls of the channel. In the channel walls, there were thermoelectric converters. It has been shown that in this system, the maximum conversion efficiency of heat from gas combustion may be close to the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric conversion calculated by the maximum acceptable working temperature of the hot side of the converter. This conclusion is valid in the case when the adiabatic combustion temperature of the gas mixture is below the maximum allowable operating temperature of the hot side of the thermoelectric converter. The considered system is promising for the burning of low-calorific gas mixtures and does not require additional energy for cooling the cold side of the thermoelectric con-verter.

DOI: 10.1134/S0869864316040119