THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FLAME FIRED THERMIONIC GENERATOR.

Abstract

The report covers a program to investigate components for flame fired thermionic energy conversion systems. The objective of the program is to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a thermionic converter with a barrier layer and a heat pipe to obtain 1500 hour reliability of the assembly. A basic subassembly was designed to deliver 100 electrical watts from the thermal energy of a fossil fuel flame operating in an air environment. Twelve of these units would be used in the one kilowatt power module. Problems of heat transfer, permeation barrier integration, heat pipe processing and closure, and burner temperature uniformity were encountered and substantially reduced or eliminated. After the separate components were evaluated and determined to be satisfactory, a fossil fuel-heated converter was assembled which delivered 100 watts of power during testing. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1966
Accession Number
AD0634538

Entities

People

  • W. B. Hall

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Conversion
  • Converters
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Energy Transfer
  • Environment
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Generators
  • Heat Pipes
  • Heat Transfer
  • Pipes
  • Reliability
  • Thermionic Converters

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Electrical Engineering