Performance Improvement of Glass Microfiber Based Thermal Transpiration Pump Using TPMS.

The Knudsen pump, known as a thermal transpiration membrane, is an air inducer that has been mostly studied for small-scale power generation devices. It is a porous medium that does not require any mechanically moving component, but rather uses the temperature gradient across two surfaces of the membrane to induce air from the colder side to the hotter side. If the temperature on the colder side of the membrane is reduced by a thermal guard, the pumping performance of the membrane seems to be improved.