热声发动机用加热器的设计与实验验证

热声发动机利用热声效应将热能转换为机械能,热能由核心部件加热器提供。加热器在热声发动机的能量传递和转化过程中起着举足轻重的作用。针对热声发动机的工作特点,介绍了一种采用时均流对流换热公式进行热声发动机用加热器设计的方法。基于该方法,设计了一种新型热声发动机用电加热器,并应用于自行研制的太型多功能行波热声发动机试验台。设计计算和实验结果表明,该加热器能够充分满足热声发动机的加热要求。本文对以振荡流体为特征的换热器设计具有一定参考价值。     

燃气和电驱动热声发动机的对比研究

热声发动机利用热声效应把热能高效转化为声功,系统中不存在任何机械运动部件,应用前景光明.热声发动机的一个突出优点是直接采用热能驱动,可以提高低温位热能的品位.在原有电驱动热声发动机的基础上,制作了一台燃气驱动行波热声发动机,以氮气为工质,充气压力为1.2 MPa时,获得了1.34的最大压比.对电驱动和燃气驱动两种加热方式作了对比研究,得到了燃气驱动条件下热声发动机的起振状态、加热功率和直流抑制的规律.     

负载对热声发动机性能的影响

热声发动机作为一种完全没有运动部件的能量转化和传输机械具有广阔的应用前景.为了提高热声发动机的驱动性能,本文采用变负载法对热声发动机性能的影响因素进行了实验研究.实验结果表明,负载的阻力和容抗对热声发动机的加热温度、压比和声功引出有重要影响.同时,实验中还发现了能够使热声发动机瞬时消振和起振的实验方法,将极大方便对热声发动机的开关控制.     

三级行波热声发动机的声场特性

设计并搭建了一台三级行波热声发动机,并基于线性热声理论和实验研究分析了该热声发动机的声场特性。结果表明:理论计算中各级加热功率相同时,发动机声场对称;而实验中加热功率相同时声场存在不一致性,需要输入特定的加热功率来控制三级加热温度基本相同,从而保证三级声场基本对称,此时相邻两级对应位置的压力相位差在120°±10°范围内;随着充气压力和加热温度的升高,系统工作频率略有升高,变化不显著,系统压力振幅和压比则增大明显。以氮气和氦气为工质时,工作频率分别在20 Hz和55 Hz左右;实验中压比分别达到了1.28和1.18。      

带阻性管的环路行波热声发动机性能研究

高效的行波热声发动机要求回热器处在接近行波和高声阻抗的声场。为此,本文拟采用阻性管进行调相,设计了一台单级环路行波热声发动机,分别以He,N2和CO2为工质,对该热声发动机的起振特性和稳态运行工况进行了系统的实验研究。结果表明,安装阻性管后,单级环路行波热声发动机的起振温度可以被降低300℃以上,最低起振温度仅为55C(工质为CO2,平均压力为2.35 MPa)。此外,系统可以在200℃以下的加热温度达到比较可观的压比。可见,阻性管可以作为环路行波热声发动机的一种有效调相方式,本文所提出的热声发动机系统具有利用低品位热源驱动的潜力。     

1kW碟式太阳能行波热声发电系统

碟式太阳能行波热声发电是近年来兴起的新型热发电技术,具有可靠性好、潜在效率高、分布灵活等优点。本文介绍了正在研制的一套1 kW碟式太阳能行波热声发电系统。该系统利用碟式集热器收集太阳辐射热量,通过高温热管将热量传输到发动机热端,再采用行波热声发电机进行热-电转换。初步调试采用高频加热模拟太阳能,以3.5 MPa氦气为工质、加热温度为751℃和798℃时分别实现了116 W和255 W的电功输出。实验验证了系统的可行性。目前系统的安装调试仍在进行中,相关的实验结果将在后续的文章中进行报道。     

热声发动机起振、消振过程的动态行为

针对热声发动机中复杂的起振、消振行为,在自行研制的"驻波型热声发动机试验平台"上,开展了工质类型、加热功率、充气压力等参数对热声发动机起振、消振行为的影响规律研究.试验结果表明:当采用纯氦气和90%氦气+10%氩气的混合气体时,系统存在一最佳的充气压力值,使起振温度和消振温度达到最低;而其余工质,其起振温度与消振温度均随着充气压力增加而逐渐提高;与此同时,由于加热功率对板叠热端温度影响较小,故采用板叠热端温度作为行为特性参数更为合理.     

燃气驱动热声发动机中加热器的设计与实验验证

加热器在热声发动机的能量传递和转化过程中起着重要作用,是热声发动机的核心部件之一。目前热声发动机大多采用电能驱动,采用燃气直接燃烧驱动将对热声发动机的实用化具有积极促进意义。根据热声发动机的工作特点,以时均流对流换热公式为依据,设计了一种新型燃气燃烧驱动加热器,并应用于现有的混合型热声发动机实验台上,取得了较好的实验结果。     

行波热声发动机声功输出特性研究

行波热声发动机具有效率高、可靠性好及环保等优点.本文分别以氮气和氦气为工质研究了行波热声发动机的声功输出特性.在平均压力为3.0MPa,输入功率为3000W时,氮气为工质获得最大492.3W输出声功,氦气为工质获得最大691.3W的声功.此外还针对两种不同锥度的锥形谐振管发动机的声功输出特性进行了对比研究.研究表明:设计合理的谐振管一方面能够有效降低加热温度,有利于利用低品位热源;另一方面还能有效地降低损失,在相同的加热量下具有更高的压比、更大的输出声功及效率.     

热声发动机的CFD数值模拟

采用计算流体动力学(CFD)方法,对高频驻波热声发动机和热声斯特林发动机实验系统分别进行了二维和三维数值模拟。计算模型具有与实验系统相同的几何结构、尺寸和运行工况。对计算模型的有效性进行了研究,表明实现有限换热条件的板叠实物模型适合驻波热声发动机的模拟,而实现局域热平衡的多孔介质模型适合热声斯特林发动机的模拟。计算结果成功观测到了非线性的自激振荡演化过程,捕捉到了两种发动机的不同非线性现象。计算结果分别给出了两种热声发动机内部的声场分布特性和复杂流场。计算结果与实验结果的对比验证了CFD方法对高频驻波热声发动机和热声斯特林发动机模拟的有效性。     

行波和驻波模式下热声振荡的临界温度梯度

热声机械作为一种能量转化装置。其效率于传统发动机还有较大差距。本文讨论了热声发动机在驻波和行波两种不同工作状态下,其声功率产生的临界温度梯度与流道尺寸和工作介质的关系,得出了两种模式下最佳的工作条件。结果表明;采用行波形式的热声发动机结构,可以有效降低临界温度梯度,提高热致声的效率,同时可以利用一些低品位来做为热声发动机的高温端。     

A numerical simulation method and analysis of a complete thermoacoustic-Stirling engine

Thermoacoustic prime movers can generate pressure oscillation without any moving parts on self-excited thermoacoustic effect. The details of the numerical simulation methodology for thermoacoustic engines are presented in the paper. First, a four-port network method is used to build the transcendental equation of complex frequency as a criterion to judge if temperature distribution of the whole thermoacoustic system is correct for the case with given heating power. Then, the numerical simulation of a thermoacoustic-Stirling heat engine is carried out. It is proved that the numerical simulation code can run robustly and output what one is interested in. Finally, the calculated results are compared with the experiments of the thermoacoustic-Stirling heat engine (TASHE). It shows that the numerical simulation can agrees with the experimental results with acceptable accuracy.     

行波型热声热机的研究进展

Ceperley首先提出了行波型热声热机的概念 ,此后许多研究者对此类型的热机进行了理论及实验研究。文中对行波型热声热机的发展历史、研究现状及应用前景进行了简要介绍     

Experiments and low-order modelling of intermittent transitions between clockwise and anticlockwise spinning thermoacoustic modes in annular combustors

Annular combustion chambers of gas turbines and aircraft engines are subject to unstable azimuthal thermoacoustic modes leading to high amplitude acoustic waves propagating in the azimuthal direction. For certain operating conditions, the propagating direction of the wave switches randomly. The strong turbulent noise prevailing in gas turbine combustors is a source of random excitation for the thermoacoustic modes and can be the cause of these switching events. A low-order model is proposed to describe qualitatively this property of the dynamics of thermoacoustic azimuthal modes. This model is based on the acoustic wave equation with a destabilizing thermoacoustic source term to account for the flame’s response and a stochastic term to account for the turbulent combustion noise. Slow-flow averaging is applied to describe the modal dynamics on times scales that are slower than the acoustic pulsation. Under certain conditions, the model reduces formally to a Fokker-Planck equation describing a stochastic diffusion process in a potential landscape with two symmetric wells: One well corresponds to a mode propagating in the clockwise direction, the other well corresponds to a mode propagating in the anticlockwise direction. When the level of turbulent noise is sufficient, the stochastic force makes the mode jump from one well to the other at random times, reproducing the phenomenon of direction switching. Experiments were conducted on a laboratory scale annular combustor featuring 12 hydrogen-methan flames. System identification techniques were used to fit the model on the experimental data, allowing to extract the potential shape and the intensity of the stochastic excitation. The statistical predictions obtained from the Fokker–Planck equation on the mode’s behaviour and the direction switching time are in good agreement with the experiments.     

Theoretical prediction of the onset of thermoacoustic instability from the experimental transfer matrix of a thermoacoustic core

The aim of this paper is to propose a method to predict the onset conditions of the thermoacoustic instability for various thermoacoustic engines. As an accurate modeling of the heat exchangers and the stack submitted to a temperature gradient is a difficult task, an experimental approach for the characterization of the amplifying properties of the thermoacoustic core is proposed. An experimental apparatus is presented which allows to measure the transfer matrix of a thermoacoustic core under various heating conditions by means of a four-microphone method. An analytical model for the prediction of the onset conditions from this measured transfer matrix is developed. The experimental data are introduced in the model and theoretical predictions of the onset conditions are compared with those actually observed in standing-wave and traveling-wave engines. The results show good agreement between predictions from the model and experiments.     

串级热声发动机的机理分析及数值模拟

简要综述了热声发动机的发展历程,把三种典型的发动机形式作了比较分析,在此基础上,对国际上最近提出的串级型发动机进行了定性讨论,并结合一定的几何结构,运用线性热声理论对该类型热声机进行了数值模拟。     

Influence of stack geometry and resonator length on the performance of thermoacoustic engine

Thermoacoustic engines convert heat energy into high amplitude sound waves, which is used to drive thermoacoustic refrigerator or pulse tube cryocoolers by replacing the mechanical pistons such as compressors. The increasing interest in thermoacoustic technology is of its potentiality of no exotic materials, low cost and high reliability compared to vapor compression refrigeration systems. The experimental setup has been built based on the linear thermoacoustic model and some simple design parameters. The engines produce acoustic energy at the temperature difference of 325–450 K imposed along the stack of the system. This work illustrates the influence of stack parameters such as plate thickness (PT) and plate spacing (PS) with resonator length on the performance of thermoacoustic engine, which are measured in terms of onset temperature difference, resonance frequency and pressure amplitude using air as a working fluid. The results obtained from the experiments are in good agreement with the theoretical results from DeltaEc.     

Synthetical optimization of the structure dimension for the thermoacoustic regenerator

The quantitative investigation of parameters in the renegerator is essential for the optimization of thermoacoustic devices, while the majority of the previous research only considered parameters of the working field, working gas and the hydraulic radius. Based on the linear thermoacoustic theory, this paper extracts a normalized parameter for low-amplitude conditions, which is called the regenerator operation factor. By extracting the regenerator operation factor and relative hydraulic radius, the influence of frequency on the efficiency can be controlled and offset. It can be found that thermoacoustic devices with different frequencies can perform the same efficiency by adjusting the radius in proportion to the axial length. Finally, this paper synthetically optimizes the dimension of the thermoacoustic regenerator by taking the regenerator operation factor, relative hydraulic radius and acoustic field parameter as variables. Conclusions in this paper are of great significance for explaining the best working conditions of engines and directing the miniaturization and optimal design of thermoacoustic devices.