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Thermal Energy Harvesting for Application at MEMS Scale

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9215-3

ISBN: 978-1-4614-9214-6

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Oct 11, 2013

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An Introduction to Waste Heat Capture and MEMS

Percy, Steven; Knight, Chris; McGarry, Scott; Post, Alex; Moore, Tim; Cavanagh, Kate

Pages: 1 –6

[Waste heat is all around us. Every energetic process, regardless of its initial form (kinetic, chemical, or electrical), eventually ends as heat, which eventually degrades to ambient temperature. In many situations, the heat could be captured and converted to electrical energy.]
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Established Thermomechanical Heat Engine Cycles

Percy, Steven; Knight, Chris; McGarry, Scott; Post, Alex; Moore, Tim; Cavanagh, Kate

Pages: 7 –23

[This chapter describes and discusses the four most common external combustion thermodynamic cycles: Stirling, Brayton, Ericsson, and Rankine. Internal combustion thermodynamic cycles, such as Otto, Diesel, and rocket, will not be considered, because it is impractical to use them for waste heat...
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Other Thermomechanical Heat Engines

Percy, Steven; Knight, Chris; McGarry, Scott; Post, Alex; Moore, Tim; Cavanagh, Kate

Pages: 25 –39

[In Chap. 2, the discussion centered on traditional heat engine cycles that were developed at large to very large scale for industrial power generation. This chapter discusses smaller scale methods of converting a thermal difference into mechanical energy that are applicable at a micro-electro...
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Mechanical to Electrical Conversion

Percy, Steven; Knight, Chris; McGarry, Scott; Post, Alex; Moore, Tim; Cavanagh, Kate

Pages: 41 –50

[As described in Chap. 3 many methods of harvesting thermal energy convert heat energy into mechanical energy; often, this is vibration. While mechanical energy may be of use in some systems, an additional stage of converting energy from mechanics or kinetics to electrical energy is generally...
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Thermal to Electrical Energy Converters

Percy, Steven; Knight, Chris; McGarry, Scott; Post, Alex; Moore, Tim; Cavanagh, Kate

Pages: 51 –67

[The previous chapters discussed the generation of mechanical motion from thermal energy and the subsequent conversion of this to electrical energy. The additional step from thermal to electrical energy can introduce further losses, reducing overall efficiency. In this chapter, the conversion of...

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