Design and testing of a travelling-wave looped-tube engine for low-cost electricity generators in remote and rural areas

7th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yu, Zhibin ^a,c   Backhaus, Scott ^b,d   Jaworski, Artur J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c School of MACE   (United States)

^d Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATORS; LOW-COST ELECTRICITY; THERMOACOUSTIC ENGINES; THERMOACOUSTICS;

COSTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; LOUDSPEAKERS; RURAL AREAS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 77956847903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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