Reclaiming Power Potential from Low Temperature Waste Heat by Thermomagnetic Heat Engines

Thermomagnetic heat engines were designed, constructed, and tested, where numbers of gadolinium (Gd) blocks were used to exploit low temperature waste heat. Gadolinium is a rare earth material whose magnetic property changes with temperature, altering between ferromagnetic and paramagnetic. A motion...

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Main Authors: Han, H.J (Author), Kim, Y. (Author), Kim, Y.J (Author), Lim, S.-H (Author), Mehmood, M.U (Author), Oh, S.J (Author)
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2022
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520 3 |a Thermomagnetic heat engines were designed, constructed, and tested, where numbers of gadolinium (Gd) blocks were used to exploit low temperature waste heat. Gadolinium is a rare earth material whose magnetic property changes with temperature, altering between ferromagnetic and paramagnetic. A motion develops in the thermomagnetic heat engine as Gd blocks are exposed to different temperatures causing changes in their magnetic property. A change in the magnetic property of any Gd block is directly related to the resultant torque driving the thermomagnetic heat engine for power production. Among heat engines studied to date, the cylindrical thermomagnetic heat engine was able to develop a maximum mechanical power of 1.1 W at a temperature difference of 45◦C between hot and cold thermal resources. Furthermore, depending on the effectiveness of an electromagnetic generator (EMG) combined with a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), the electric power output can be notably improved. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 
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650 0 4 |a Triboelectric nanogenerator 
650 0 4 |a Triboelectricity 
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700 1 |a Han, H.J.  |e author 
700 1 |a Kim, Y.  |e author 
700 1 |a Kim, Y.J.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lim, S.-H.  |e author 
700 1 |a Mehmood, M.U.  |e author 
700 1 |a Oh, S.J.  |e author 
773 |t Energies