ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) equipped both engine and generator is a transitional typefrom the internal-combustion engine vehicle to electric vehicle, but is a self-existent type, too. Applying athermoelectric generator to recovery the waste heat of its engine, could not only improve the energysaving, but also the discharge / charge performance of the vehicle. For this purpose, the applicablegenerator must be a high-power and high-density one, which exchanges energy between the waste heatflow field and the conversion electric field; moreover, the temperature field is the coupling field withthem. One of the methods to increase power-density of the generator is to strengthen the conversionintensity among above fields. In this paper, firstly a novel internal-axial-netted thermoelectric generator ispresented, which includes following basic ideas: (1) using the stereo-electrodes to improve the integrationof thermo-elements; (2) let the thermocouples to do heat convection directly with heat gas flow in pipe, toincrease the heat flow density and electric current density, reduce the thermal resistance on solidconducting; (3) using the compensating wire to connect thermoelectric circuit and elongate the distancebetween hot source and cold source, so a higher temperature difference and a stronger cooling effect canbe made. The analyses show though this generator used existing thermoelectric materials, its out-powercan be increased and volume can be compacted. After this, secondly, the application scheme and keytechnologies of the novel high-intensity thermoelectric generator (HTG) as a main electrical source tosupply electric power in HEV are chiefly discussed also
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/53/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.336-338.892.pdf
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