On the Recovery of Wasted Heat Using a Commercial Thermoelectric Device

• Authors: E. Hatzikraniotis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Waste heat recovery from car's exhaust gases provides an opportunity to significantly improve the overall car engine efficiency. One approach for recovering energy from the exhaust gases is to generate electrical power through thermoelectric conversion. A thermoelectric device, using a commercially available thermoelectric generator module was made, in order to measure the gained power and efficiency at different places of the exhaust pipe of a small size car (Toyota Starlet, 1300cc), for various engine loads. With the use of a modeling approach, we evaluated the thermal contact resistances and their influence on the final device efficiency.

Keywords

EN

72.15.Jf

Discipline

• 72.15.Jf: Thermoelectric and thermomagnetic effects

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 121
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 287-289

Dates

published

2012-01

Contributors

author

E. Hatzikraniotis

• Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54123 Thessaloniki, Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.121.287