SBIR Phase I: Thermo-Electric Conversion by Optimally Scaled Nanocomposite Materials

SBIR 第一阶段：通过最佳尺寸纳米复合材料进行热电转换

• 批准号: 0740295
• 负责人: Andrew Miner
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Romny Scientific, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740295&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Thermo; Electric; Conversion

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes a power generation architecture based on thermoelectric effects. This technology allows significant gains in conversion efficiency and total converted power. This is achieved by integrating three aspects of a successful energy conversion product: (1) advanced materials that enable efficient energy conversion due to their nanostructure, (2) a structure that is formed at the optimal geometric scale that the application dictates, allowing it to take full advantage of the high quality materials of which it is constructed, and (3) a manufacturing process that forms these conversion devices in a cost efficient manner, allowing for broad adoption of this technology.The proposed technology will allow underutilized thermal energy available in many industries to be converted into useful electrical energy. In motor vehicles more than half the energy in gasoline is wasted as heat. This technology will boost automobile fuel efficiency by converting and reusing this otherwise wasted energy. U.S. heavy industries such as aluminum production will also be positively impacted as this technology will allow the tremendous amounts of otherwise wasted heat to be converted into useful power. By using energy more efficiently, this proposed work will have significant environmental, economic, and national security benefits.

小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I期项目提出了基于热电效应的发电架构。 该技术允许转化效率和总转换功率的显着提高。 这是通过整合成功的能量转换产品的三个方面来实现的：（1）高级材料，可以通过其纳米结构产生有效的能量转换，（（2）在应用程序决定的最佳几何量表上形成的结构，使其能够充分利用其构建成本的高质量材料的高质量材料，并构成该技术的高质量，并构成了（3）的成本。将允许许多行业中可用的热能未充分利用的热能转换为有用的电能。 在汽车中，汽油中的一半以上的能量被浪费为热量。 这项技术将通过转换和重复这种浪费的能量来提高汽车燃料效率。 美国重工（如铝生产）也将受到积极影响，因为这项技术将允许大量浪费的热量转化为有用的功率。 通过更有效地使用能源，这项提议的工作将具有巨大的环境，经济和国家安全福利。