Thermal pulse energy harvesting

This paper presents a new method to enhance thermal energy harvesting with pulsed heat transfer. By creating a phase shift between the hot and cold sides of an energy harvester, periodically pulsed heat flow can allow an available temperature gradient to be concentrated over a heat engine during eac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McKay, Ian, Wang, Evelyn
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108375
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7045-1200