Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7047977 Applied Thermal Engineering 2016 39 Pages PDF
Abstract
The validated computational model has been used to geometrically optimize the power generation of the polymer TEM. The π-sectional area of the p-type and n-type legs, their length and the number of thermocouples have been modified obtaining an improvement of 50 times the power generated by the printed module, the base design. The optimized geometry has been studied into a real application scenario of waste heat harvesting, a tile furnace with a smoke mass flow of 6.39 kg/s and a temperature of 187 °C. The thermoelectric generation of the polymer TEG located at the exhaust of the tile furnace ascends to 21.73 MW h/year. In comparison with the bismuth-telluride commercial modules, the polymer production is six times lower, however, the advantages of the polymers materials over the commercial modules make them suitable for thermoelectric generation.
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