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Advanced Thermoelectric Materials for Efficient Waste Heat Recovery in Process Industries [electronic resource]

Nesdps Office Of Nuclear Energy Space And Defense Power Systems; Heat Pipe; Thermoelectric Materials; Thermoelectric Generation; Industrial Waste Heat Recovery.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Online Access
Corporate Author:	United States. Department of Energy. Golden Field Office (Researcher)
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy. Office of Industrial Technologies ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2009.
Subjects:	Thermoelectric Generators. Combustion. Thermoelectric Materials. Waste Heat. Power Generation. Heat Pipes. Efficiency. Electricity. Performance. Melting. Glass. Materials Science. Nanoscience And Nanotechnology. Energy Conservation, Consumption, And Utilization. Direct Energy Conversion.

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Summary:	Nesdps Office Of Nuclear Energy Space And Defense Power Systems; Heat Pipe; Thermoelectric Materials; Thermoelectric Generation; Industrial Waste Heat Recovery.
Abstract:	The overall objective of the project was to integrate advanced thermoelectric materials into a power generation device that could convert waste heat from an industrial process to electricity with an efficiency approaching 20%. Advanced thermoelectric materials were developed with figure-of-merit ZT of 1.5 at 275 degrees C. These materials were not successfully integrated into a power generation device. However, waste heat recovery was demonstrated from an industrial process (the combustion exhaust gas stream of an oxyfuel-fired flat glass melting furnace) using a commercially available (5% efficiency) thermoelectric generator coupled to a heat pipe. It was concluded that significant improvements both in thermoelectric material figure-of-merit and in cost-effective methods for capturing heat would be required to make thermoelectric waste heat recovery viable for widespread industrial application.
Item Description:	Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. 01/06/2009. "doe/go/14044-1" Adam Polcyn; Moe Khaleel. PPG Industries, Inc.
Type of Report and Period Covered Note:	Final;