Published June 2012
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Journal Article
Waste Heat Recovery from a Marine Waste Incinerator Using a Thermoelectric Generator
Abstract
A marine waste incinerator has been evaluated for waste heat harvesting using thermoelectric generators (TEG). The application has been evaluated using mathematical modeling to optimize the heat exchanger and some vital design parameters of the TEG. The calculation shows that it is possible to extract 58 kWel at a price of 6.6 US$/W from an 850-kW_th incinerator when optimizing for maximum power. However, minimizing the cost, it is possible to get 25 kWel at a price of 2.5 US$/W. A trade-off between the two targets leads to a combination that gives 38 kWel at a price of 2.7 US$/W.
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© 2012 TMS. Received June 17, 2011; accepted February 10, 2012; published online March 7, 2012).Additional details
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