Experiment on thermal uniformity and pressure drop of exhaust heat exchanger for automotive thermoelectric generator

Energy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 372-377

  Lu, Hongliang ^a,b   Wu, Ting ^a   Bai, Shengqiang ^a   Xu, Kangcong ^b   Huang, Yingjie ^b   Gao, Weimin ^c   Yin, Xianglin ^a   Chen, Lidong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c BAIC Motor Corporation Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Automobile exhaust; Energy recovery; Heat exchanger; Muffler; Thermoelectric generator

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AUTOMOBILE MUFFLERS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; MUFFLERS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST; ENERGY RECOVERY; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; PRESSURE DROP CHARACTERISTIC; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; UNIFORM FLOW DISTRIBUTIONS; VEHICLE OPERATING CONDITIONS;

INLET FLOW;

EXPERIMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS; NOISE; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84876968208     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.02.067     Document Type: Article

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