TY - GEN
T1 - Travelling wave thermoacoustic electricity generator for rural areas using a side-branch alternator arrangement
AU - Abdoulla, Kalid
AU - Kang, Huifang
AU - Jaworski, Artur J.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper illustrates the design, construction and testing of a looped-tube travelling wave thermoacoustic electricity generator that provides low-cost electrical power for remote and rural areas of developing countries. The system is designed numerically by using a specialized design tool DeltaEC, based on the linear thermoacoustic theory. A commercially available loudspeaker is connected via a 920 mm long side-branch tube to the 5.0 m long one wavelength looped-tube thermoacoustic engine. It is used to convert the acoustic power produced by the engine to useful electrical output. Air at atmospheric pressure is used as working gas to minimize the cost of the construction. The thermal power that drives the engine is supplied by a propane gas burner. It is shown that at an operating frequency of 64.5 Hz, the thermoacoustic generator can produce up to 13 W of electrical power. Results obtained from numerical analysis and experiments are presented and discussed in detail.
AB - This paper illustrates the design, construction and testing of a looped-tube travelling wave thermoacoustic electricity generator that provides low-cost electrical power for remote and rural areas of developing countries. The system is designed numerically by using a specialized design tool DeltaEC, based on the linear thermoacoustic theory. A commercially available loudspeaker is connected via a 920 mm long side-branch tube to the 5.0 m long one wavelength looped-tube thermoacoustic engine. It is used to convert the acoustic power produced by the engine to useful electrical output. Air at atmospheric pressure is used as working gas to minimize the cost of the construction. The thermal power that drives the engine is supplied by a propane gas burner. It is shown that at an operating frequency of 64.5 Hz, the thermoacoustic generator can produce up to 13 W of electrical power. Results obtained from numerical analysis and experiments are presented and discussed in detail.
KW - Electricity generator
KW - Linear alternator
KW - Thermal-acoustic-electrical power conversion
KW - Thermoacoustic engine
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887986738
SN - 9789881925299
T3 - Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
SP - 1835
EP - 1840
BT - Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2013, WCE 2013
T2 - 2013 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2013
Y2 - 3 July 2013 through 5 July 2013
ER -