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ABSTRACT
A loop thermosiphon thermal collector was developed for the waste heat recovery power generation with electric capacity of 500 W. The heat collector with heat transfer area of 0.159 m2 (500 mm width and 300 mm depth) was connected to the condenser with a shrunken heat transfer area by a loop. The thermal performance of the apparatus was declined when increasing the water filling rate to 90% as the working fluid occupied the internal volume. In the range of water filling rate between 30% and 60%, the effective thermal conductivity was around100 times of the conductivity of copper.
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Funding
A part of this study was supported by the market development technology construction program by Niigata Industrial Creation Organization (NICO), “Development of power generation system by unused low-temperature waste heat”, Shin-san-so 841, 2011-2013. The authors are grateful to express our appreciation for the financial aid.