New Local Engine to Produce Low-Cost Electricity, Conserve Energy

AUC faculty headed by Ehab Abdel Rahman, along with postdoctoral fellows and 10 graduate students, have recently devised a thermoacoustic heat engine to convert thermal energy into acoustic, or sound, energy, to eventually produce electricity.

Thermoacoustic engines require little maintenance, and are highly reliable and inexpensive to produce.
The thermoacoustic heat engine produced by AUC researchers operates in an environmentally friendly medium using air or noble gas.