Potential use of Thermoelectric Generator Device for Air Conditioning System

Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: Engineering Education Facing the Grand Challenges, What Are We Doing?
Date of Conference: July 29 - 31, 2015
Location of Conference: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Authors: Pedro M. Peralta Trinidad
Gerardo Carbajal
Refereed Paper: #234

Abstract:

For this research a thermoelectric array was designed and used to experimentally investigate the energy consumption of this device may cause a cooling process in the hot fluid. For this purpose an experimental setup was designed in which a square channel allows the fluid flow of cold and hot air. Hot air was pumped at the bottom section and cold at the top section; the two fluids were separated by a wall. The heat source had a maximum capacity of 1850W and the electrical loads used in the experiments were in the range between 390 Ω and 760 Ω. It was found that the temperature difference between the inlet and outlet of the hot air was affected by the application of an electrical load. The numerical solution indicates that this system behaves different that a typical counter flow heat exchanger.