THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION and SCALING OF A MEMS HEAT ENGINE



FREE-DOWNLOAD H Bardaweel, R Richards, M Anderson… – Proceedings of the 9th …, 2009
ABSTRACT: The working cycle of a MEMS dynamic heat engine has been acquired
experimentally. The cycle approximates a vapor Carnot cycle and has a second law efficiency
of 16%. A scaling analysis based upon a lumped parameter dynamic model was .