US 11,997,928 B2
Apparatus and method for generating power with a thermoelectric generator, passive burner, and passive heat sink
Abdelallah Ahmed, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); John C. Vega, III, Camarillo, CA (US); Jeffrey A Mays, Woodland Hills, CA (US); and David F. Morrison, II, Hesperia, CA (US)
Assigned to GTI ENERGY, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Filed by GTI ENERGY, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/845,338.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/213,483, filed on Jun. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0406984 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H10N 10/13 (2023.01); F23D 14/10 (2006.01); F23M 20/00 (2014.01); H10N 10/17 (2023.01)
CPC H10N 10/13 (2023.02) [F23D 14/10 (2013.01); F23M 20/00 (2015.01); H10N 10/17 (2023.02); F23M 2900/13003 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for producing electric power, comprising:
a burner, wherein the burner comprises a horizontal burner tube;
a tubular heat exchanger extending along and around the burner tube, wherein the heat exchanger is configured to allow air to naturally flow from a bottom to feed a combustion process and includes exchanger holes on a top to vent hot gases, and as the gases are burnt and vented, the heat exchanger absorbs energy to increase temperature;
a thermoelectric generator disposed along a side of the heat exchanger; and
a heat sink on an opposite side of the thermoelectric generator from the burner.