Acoustic matching of a traveling-wave thermoacoustic electric generator
TLDR
In this paper, an effective approach for matching the acoustic impedances of the thermoacoustic engine and the linear alternators for maximizing the output electric power and thermal-to-electric efficiency was presented.About:
This article is published in Applied Thermal Engineering.The article was published on 2016-06-05 and is currently open access. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermoacoustics & Acoustic impedance.read more
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Figure 2. Two output locations of traveling-wave thermoacoustic engines 
Table 1. Main geometric dimensions of traveling-wave thermoacoustic engine. 
Figure 8. Input acoustic power and output electric power vs. operating frequency. 
Figure 7. Equivalent displacements |x1| at (a) location A and (b) location B with respect to output acoustic impedance Za. 
Figure 13. Effect of load resistance on acoustoelectric efficiency of linear alternators. 
Table 2. Parameters of linear alternators.
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Review on the conversion of thermoacoustic power into electricity
TL;DR: A review of the four main methods to convert the (thermo)acoustic power into electricity is provided in this article, focusing on possible configurations, operating characteristics, output performance, and analytical and numerical methods to study the devices.
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Multi-physics coupling in thermoacoustic devices: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the multi-physics coupling effects, namely, thermal-acoustic coupling, acoustic-mechanical coupling and mechanical-electric coupling, inside thermoacoustic devices including thermo-acoustically-driven refrigerators, etc.
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Thermoacoustic Stirling power generation from LNG cold energy and low-temperature waste heat
TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied the thermoacoustic Stirling electric generator to recover LNG cold energy and waste heat simultaneously, which can help to improve the energy efficiency of LNG power generation systems, meanwhile, abundant low-grade waste heat can also be exploited from the exhaust gas of gas turbines.
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Numerical analysis on a four-stage looped thermoacoustic Stirling power generator for low temperature waste heat
TL;DR: In this paper, a four-stage looped thermoacoustic Stirling power generator for generating electricity from low temperature waste heat at 300°C is systematically studied, and the effects of the coupling position for the linear alternators and the regenerator position on the acoustic characteristics and performances of the power generation system are numerically investigated.
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Numerical study on a heat-driven piston-coupled multi-stage thermoacoustic-Stirling cooler
Jing-Yuan Xu,Jingyuan Xu,Jingyuan Xu,Jianying Hu,Ercang Luo,Jiangfeng Hu,Limin Zhang,Simone Hochgreb +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a heat-driven multi-stage thermo-acoustic cooler is proposed to satisfy cooling requirements in the applications of natural gas liquefaction and high-temperature superconductivity.
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Beating effect between a thermoacoustic source and its mechanical partner
TL;DR: In this article, periodic energy transfer characteristics between a thermo-acoustic source and its mechanical partner during the beating oscillation are revealed and analyzed, and the oscillation frequency is found to split into two modes intrinsically even when the resonance frequencies are initially tuned to be the same.
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How to match an acoustical load to a thermoacoustic heat engine
L. M. Zhang,Y. Y. Chen,E. C. Luo +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical simulation of RC-type and RL-type acoustic loads driven by a traveling-wave thermo-acoustic engine with constant heating temperature was carried out, and the dependence of the output acoustic power and efficiency on the acoustic load is quite complicated and unique.