Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su141912306
Keywords
waste heat recovery; power plants; thermoacoustic; thermoacoustic core
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The existence and development of modern society require a significant amount of energy, and combustion engines are the main sources of heat. However, these engines also produce emissions containing harmful substances, which is a pressing issue to address. Conventional technologies are not effective in utilizing low-temperature waste heat, but thermoacoustic technologies offer a solution by converting it into mechanical work or electricity. This article analyzes the possibilities of improving thermoacoustic engines in energy-saving systems and proposes new methods to increase their efficiency.
The existence and development of modern society require significant amounts of available energy. Combustion engines are the main sources of heat. Their operation is accompanied by the formation of large volumes of emissions, which have different temperatures and contain harmful substances ejected into the environment. Therefore, the urgent problem today is the reduction in heat emissions. This might be achieved through a reduction in the amount of these pollutants by improving primary heat engines, converting to new, alternative types of fuel, and at the same time, to carbon-free fuel. However, such measures only reduce the temperature level of waste heat but not its volume. Conventional technologies for the utilization of heat emissions are ineffective for using heat with temperatures below 500 K. Thermoacoustic technologies can be used to convert such low-temperature heat emissions into mechanical work or electricity. This article is focused on analyzing the possibilities of improving the thermoacoustic engines of energy-saving systems through the rational organization of thermoacoustic energy conversion processes. An original mathematical model of energy exchange between the internal elements of thermoacoustic engines is developed. It is shown that the use of recuperative heat exchangers in thermoacoustic engines leads to a decrease in their efficiency by 10-30%. From the research results, new methods of increasing the efficiency of low-temperature engines of energy-saving systems are proposed.
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