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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Swapan Chakraborty, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Swapan Chakraborty, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
A thermoelectric generator assembly includes a thermoelectric generator with hot and cold junction flanges. The hot junction flange includes an adapter shaped for thermally coupling to a process vessel. The thermoelectric generator producing a thermoelectric power output. A heat sink thermally couples to ambient air and has a heat sink flange. A heat pipe assembly includes fluid in a circulation chamber. The circulation chamber has an evaporator flange mounted to the cold junction flange and a condenser flange mounted to the heat sink flange. At least a portion of the fluid transports heat from the evaporator flange to the condenser flange. When a heat pipe assembly on a cold junction flange is used with many of the types of heat flows that are available in process industries, more efficient thermoelectric power generation can be provided in the process industries.