文章基本信息

标题：Design of a novel thermoelectric module based on application stability and power generation
本地全文：下载
作者：Lin Liu ; Xiangning Meng ; Zhuang Miao 等
期刊名称：Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
印刷版ISSN：2214-157X
电子版ISSN：2214-157X
出版年度：2022
卷号：31
页码：101836
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier B.V.
摘要：Application stability and power generation of a conventional cube-type thermoelectric (TE) module were analyzed considering different shapes. It was found that the stress concentration occurred in the copper electrodes of cube-type ones. Further, cube TE legs were re-designed into cylinder ones. And stress concentration in the copper electrodes has reduced. To explore novel designing for enhancing efficiency, the truncated cone-type TE module with a smaller cold end area was designed. The results show that application stability and power generation have been optimized synchronously. The maximum stress has dropped by 1.9% compared with the cube-type TE module, and the maximum deformation is decreased by 1.4%. When the temperature difference is 80K, the output power of the novel TE module is enhanced by 9.3%. The proposed truncated cone-type TE module has high reliability and applicability, and it can be a promising method for heat harvesting.
关键词：Thermoelectric module Structure design Application stability Power generation