Reclaiming Power Potential from Low Temperature Waste Heat by Thermomagnetic Heat Engines

Autor: Yeongmin Kim, Muhammad Uzair Mehmood, Hyun Joo Han, Yu Jin Kim, Seung Jin Oh, Sang-Hoon Lim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 15, Iss 8, p 2817 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en15082817
Popis: Thermomagnetic heat engines were designed, constructed, and tested, where numbers of gadolinium (Gd) blocks were used to exploit low temperature waste heat. Gadolinium is a rare earth material whose magnetic property changes with temperature, altering between ferromagnetic and paramagnetic. A motion develops in the thermomagnetic heat engine as Gd blocks are exposed to different temperatures causing changes in their magnetic property. A change in the magnetic property of any Gd block is directly related to the resultant torque driving the thermomagnetic heat engine for power production. Among heat engines studied to date, the cylindrical thermomagnetic heat engine was able to develop a maximum mechanical power of 1.1 W at a temperature difference of 45 °C between hot and cold thermal resources. Furthermore, depending on the effectiveness of an electromagnetic generator (EMG) combined with a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), the electric power output can be notably improved.
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