Waste Heat Recovery from a Drier Receiver of an A/C Unit Using Thermoelectric Generators

Thermoelectric generators(TEGs)are considered promising devices for waste heat recovery from various systems.The Seebeck effect can be utilized to generate power using the residual heat emitted by the filter dryer receiver(FDR)of an air conditioning(A/C)system,which would otherwise go to waste.The study aims to build a set of thermoelectric generators(TEG)to collect the waste heat of the FDR and generate low-power electricity.A novel electrical circuit with two transformers is designed and fabricated to produce a more stable voltage for operation and charging.The thermoelectric generator(TEGs)was installed on the FDR of the A/C unit.The test showed that climate conditions have a significant impact on the output power generated from the system.The results showed that the peak voltage recorded in the current study is 5.2 V per day(wet,cold,and wind weather)with an output power of 0.2 W.These values are acceptable for powering the load and charging a single battery with 3.5 V as the voltage increases battery 0.1 V/20 min charge.A case study of operating the emergency signs in a building was considered.The current heat recovery system is deemed to be easily installed and can be connected to a network of TEGs to produce more power.

Evaluation of Chaotic Demodulator for EBPSK Signals

Based on the theory of Duffing oscillator weak signal detection and the technology of extended binary phase shift keying （EBPSK） modulation, the chaotic demodulator using the Duffing oscillator for EBPSK signals was proposed. The proposed demodulator could avoid the problem of demodulation filters design, and shows the excellent anti-noise capability of chaotic oscillator detection. Numerical and experimental tests were taken to investigate the impact of modulation parameters T and 0 on bit error performance of the proposed method, and the performance limits were gotten. The results show that the proposed chaotic demodulator works well under a very low signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） conditions, and gets SNR gains about 20 dB to 30 dB from the impulse filter.

Fabrication of optical fiber sensor based on double-layer SU-8 diaphragm and the partial discharge detection

In this paper, a partial discharge detection system is proposed using an optical fiber Fabry-Perot(FP) interferometric sensor, which is fabricated by photolithography. SU-8 photoresist is employed due to its low Young's modulus and potentially high sensitivity for ultrasound detection. The FP cavity is formed by coating the fiber end face with two layers of SU-8 so that the cavity can be controlled by the thickness of the middle layer of SU-8. Static pressure measurement experiments are done to estimate the sensing performance. The results show that the SU-8 based sensor has a sensitivity of 154.8 nm/kP a, which is much higher than that of silica based sensor under the same condition. Moreover, the sensor is demonstrated successfully to detect ultrasound from electrode discharge.