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Experimental and Modeling Study of a Heat Exchanger Concept for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery from Diesel Exhaust
Technical Paper
2012-01-0411
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Approximately one-third of the fuel energy consumed by an internal combustion engine flows out the tailpipe as waste heat. Thermoelectric devices are being considered as a means of utilizing some of this waste heat to generate electric power on vehicles. A 1.1-liter volume flat plate heat exchanger was fabricated to study the heat transfer characteristics of a conceptual design for thermoelectric waste heat recovery from diesel exhaust, and used to validate a heat exchanger model. The heat exchanger consisted of an exhaust channel and two coolant channels all having rectangular cross-sections. The experimentally measured heat transfer rates were compared with a finite element heat transfer model to be used both for heat exchanger development and modeling thermoelectric device performance. In both the model and the experiment, alumina paper was used as a surrogate for the thermoelectric materials. The minimum and maximum heat transfer rates calculated from the model were 188 W and 1.89 kW, respectively, and the heat exchanger effectiveness from the model ranged from 0.110 to 0.169 for gas exchange rates from 65.7 s-₁ to 334 s-₁. The measured minimum and maximum heat transfer rates from the experiments were 385 W and 1.45 kW, with effectiveness ranging from 0.079 to 0.258. While there was good trend-wise agreement between the model and experiments, unaccounted for entrance effects and effects of measurement locations likely contributed to the observed differences between the two.
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Baker, C. and Shi, L., "Experimental and Modeling Study of a Heat Exchanger Concept for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery from Diesel Exhaust," SAE Technical Paper 2012-01-0411, 2012, https://doi.org/10.4271/2012-01-0411.Also In
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