Experiment on thermal uniformity and pressure drop of exhaust heat exchanger for automotive thermoelectric generator 汽车发电机排气换热器热均匀性及压降试验.pdf

Energy 54 (2013) 372e377 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Energy journal homepage: /locate/energy Experiment on thermal uniformity and pressure drop of exhaust heat exchanger for automotive thermoelectric generator Hongliang Lu a, b, Ting Wu a, Shengqiang Bai a, *, Kangcong Xu b, Yingjie Huang b, Weimin Gao c, Xianglin Yin a, Lidong Chen a a CAS Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China b SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle Co., Shanghai 201804, China c BAIC Motor, Beijing 10028, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The power generation of exhaust TEG (thermoelectric generator) depends on heat energy and ther- Received 19 October 2012 moelectric conversion efficiency. High efficiency heat exchanger is necessary to increase the amount of Received in revised form heat energy extracted from exhaust gas. On one hand, heat transfer is coupled with pressure drop for 23 January 2013 typical heat exchanger; on the other hand, the muffler unavoidably leads exhaust to large pressure drop Accepted 19 February 2013 for noise reduction. The present work tried to conceptually combine exhaust heat exchanger with Available online 10 April 2013 muffler in the form of 1-inlet 2-outlet, 2-inlet 2-outlet and the baseline empty cavity. A test bench was