Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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662404 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A general thermodynamic formulation for the operation of a pulsed thermoelectric cooler is presented using the Gibbs law and simple energy balance method. An expression for the entropy flux (W/m2 K) is expressed in terms of the key parameters employed for the thermoelectric operation. Following the classical temperature–entropy (T–s) methodology, which has all the virtues of energy flow identification, the processes along the p–n legs of thermoelectrics, contributing to both useful and dissipative losses, are clearly mapped for the transient operation.
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Authors
Anutosh Chakraborty, Kim Choon Ng,