Harvesting low grade heat to generate electricity with thermosyphon effect of room temperature liquid metal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Li, Peipei ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL SYSTEMS; CONFINED SPACE; ELECTRIC GENERATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL OUTPUT; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; HEATING POWER; LOW GRADE HEAT; MOVING PARTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELF-POWERING; TECHNICAL STRATEGY; THERMOSYPHONS; WORKING TEMPERATURES;

CAPILLARY FLOW; ELECTRICITY; LIQUID METALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SIPHONS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 80052542307     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3635393     Document Type: Article

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