The high energy density of liquid fuels creates a great opportunity to develop combustion
based micro-power generation systems to meet increasing demands for portable power …

A detailed review is carried out on current micropower technology. In particular, a prototype
micropower device based on the concept of a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system of …

Over the past decade there has been an overwhelming amount of interest in combustion-
driven thermoelectric (TE) and thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power systems. These devices are …

The results obtained from the combustion behavior of propane over platinum and rhodium
catalysts in a meso-scale heat recirculating combustor are presented. The extinction limits …

Three micro combustors with different thermal insulations were tested. The baseline was a
narrow quartz tube with inner diameter of 4 mm, named CS. A one-layer recuperator and a …

In recent years many studies were undertaken in the field of micro-combustion,
experimentally and numerically. In the present work, a new experimental device was …

A novel, compact mesoscale thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power generating system using a
combination of porous media combustion and a simple band-pass filtering method has been …

High performance ceramic-reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCs) are becoming widely
popular in industry and the mechanical machining method is one of the most suitable …

The liquid fuel combustion in a meso-scale burner with porous media was experimentally
investigated for n-heptane/air mixtures of varying equivalence ratios and flow speeds …

Combustion characteristics of a mesoscale burner array have been studied using several
diagnostic and analysis techniques. The array was specifically configured to enhance …