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[IEEE 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC) - Waikoloa Village, HI (2018.6.10-2018.6.15)] 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC) - Improving the performance of thermophotovoltaics using stabilized porous media combustion
摘要： A novel cylindrical porous media combustion-based thermophotovoltaic is proposed and experimentally studied. A mixture of methane-air is burnt at an equivalence ratio of 0.7 in a packed bed made of two layers of different alumina balls which are coated with ytterbia (Yb2O3) and erbia (Er2O3) for spectral control with gallium antimonide (GaSb) photovoltaic (PV) cells. A radiant reflector is used to increase the electrical output and the radiant efficiency. The experiments revealed it was possible to achieve a superadiabatic temperature of 1538 °C and a high radiant efficiency, 63%. Overall, this systematic analysis for lean Air/CH4 mixtures represents a new direction for TPV technology.
关键词： porous media combustion,selective coatings,Thermophotovoltaics
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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Effects of bluff-body on the thermal performance of micro thermophotovoltaic system based on porous media combustion
摘要： To improve thermophotovoltaic system efficiency, a porous media combustor with a bluff-body as the flame holder was proposed. A two-dimensional numerical simulation of premixed hydrogen/air combustion inside a planar porous media channel with the local thermal non-equilibrium model was conducted. Effects of the bluff-body flame holder on mean wall temperature and system efficiency were examined. By inserting the bluff-body, the blowout limits of the planar porous media combustor for ? = 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2 are increased by 33%, 19%, 12%, 20%, respectively. Numerical results show that the flame stabilization is dominated by flow and heat recirculation. Further analysis reveals the mechanism of heat transfer on flame stabilization due to three heat recirculation paths. Considering the view factor and the external quantum efficiency, the system efficiency with the bluff-body is increased by 14.72% as compared to the one without the bluff-body at ? = 0.8, vin = 4 m/s.
关键词： Wall temperature,Bluff-body,System efficiency,Micro thermo-photovoltaic system,Porous media combustion,Heat recirculation
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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A comprehensive experimental characterisation of a novel porous media combustion-based thermophotovoltaic system with controlled emission
摘要： The high temperatures of combustion systems make them suitable for coupling with thermophotovoltaic systems. In practice, it is quite challenging to reduce heat losses and the spectral mismatch between the emission of the combustion source and the spectral response of photovoltaic (PV) cells. In an effort to pull these disparate energy-focussed research fields together, this paper explores the use of a low-cost erbia (Er2O3) coating on a novel porous media combustion-based thermophotovoltaic (PMC-TPV) reactor for continuous combined heat and power generation. In this work, three different configurations were analysed, including a non-coated porous foam, a coated porous foam, and a coated quartz container. As such, this study provides the first in-depth analysis and characterisation of all salient components of a PMC-TPV system. It includes a detailed characterisation of a 24-cell gallium antimonide (GaSb) array, which was attached to a heat sink and used to harvest the radiant emission from a hot (> 1200 °C), yttria-stabilised zirconia/alumina composite (YZA) ceramic foam. Since the ceramic foam does not have an ideal emissivity curve for these cells, the ability of the erbia coating to control the spectral emission was measured. The results show that by applying the erbia coating to the outer surface of the YZA foam (e.g. using a simple 2-step process of dip coating followed by curing/calcination), it is possible to increase performance, achieving a maximum in-band emission fraction of 25.4% at a firing rate of 1300 kW/m2 (i.e. around 10% of increase than that for non-coated configuration), which provides a temperature of 1285 °C. Additionally, a maximum power output of 1 W was achieved by using erbia coating on YZA foam. For the third configuration, the use of the erbia coating on the quartz tube (instead of the YZA foam) leads to an increase in the maximum core temperature of the reactor up to 1443 °C; however, this also leads to a decrease in electrical performance due to a lower in-band fraction. These findings show that applying an erbia coating on an industrial radiant emitter could enable a combined heat and power processes to gain around 30% increase of electrical output. Finally, since the PV fill factor was lower than expected, and electroluminescence measurements indicated cell damage, these findings also reveal the importance of continuously monitoring PV parameters in PMC-TPV systems.
关键词： Thermophotovoltaic systems,Direct energy conversion,Porous media combustion
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04