Detailed study of a traveling wave thermoacoustic refrigerator driven by a traveling wave thermoacoustic engine

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作者
Dai, Wei [1 ]
Luo, Ercang
Zhang, Yong
Ling, Hong
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Tech Inst Phys & Chem, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
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D O I
10.1121/1.2184267
中图分类号
O42 [声学];
学科分类号
070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
Thermoacoustic systems have very attractive features and possible wide applications in many areas, especially for cooling purposes. Inventions of traveling wave thermoacoustic engines and traveling wave thermoacoustic refrigerators with work recovery capability have greatly improved the thermodynamic efficiencies of the thermoacoustic systems. To fully utilize the advantages of traveling wave systems, a traveling wave work-recoverable thermoacoustic refrigerator has been designed and built that is driven by a traveling wave thermoacoustic engine, which is aimed at domestic refrigeration purposes. So far, the lowest temperature of -64.4 degrees C and 250 W cooling power at -22.1 degrees C are obtained by the system with 3.0 MPa helium gas and 57.7 Hz working frequency. Heat input into the system is 2.2 kW. Simulations based on linear thermoacoustic theory have also been done for comparison with experimental results, which shows reasonable agreement within a certain pressure wave amplitude range and cold end temperature range. The comparisons meanwhile imply some serious loss mechanism inside the traveling wave thermoacoustic refrigerator. (c) 2006 Acoustical Society of America.
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页码:2686 / 2692
页数:7
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