TY - JOUR
T1 - A thermoelectric generator using loop heat pipe and design match for maximum-power generation
AU - Huang, Bin-Juine
AU - Hsu, Po-Chien
AU - Tsai, Rung-Je
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2015/9/5
Y1 - 2015/9/5
N2 - The present study focuses on the thermoelectric generator (TEG) using loop heat pipe (LHP) and design match for maximum-power generation. The TEG uses loop heat pipe, a passive cooling device, to dissipate heat without consuming power and free of noise. The experiments for a TEG with 4W rated power show that the LHP performs very well with overall thermal resistance 0.35 K W-1, from the cold side of TEG module to the ambient. The LHP is able to dissipate heat up to 110W and is maintenance free. The TEG design match for maximum-power generation, called “near maximum-power point operation (nMPPO)”, is studied to eliminate the MPPT (maximum-power point tracking controller). nMPPO is simply a system design which properly matches the output voltage of TEG with the battery. It is experimentally shown that TEG using design match for maximum-power generation (nMPPO) performs better than TEG with MPPT.
AB - The present study focuses on the thermoelectric generator (TEG) using loop heat pipe (LHP) and design match for maximum-power generation. The TEG uses loop heat pipe, a passive cooling device, to dissipate heat without consuming power and free of noise. The experiments for a TEG with 4W rated power show that the LHP performs very well with overall thermal resistance 0.35 K W-1, from the cold side of TEG module to the ambient. The LHP is able to dissipate heat up to 110W and is maintenance free. The TEG design match for maximum-power generation, called “near maximum-power point operation (nMPPO)”, is studied to eliminate the MPPT (maximum-power point tracking controller). nMPPO is simply a system design which properly matches the output voltage of TEG with the battery. It is experimentally shown that TEG using design match for maximum-power generation (nMPPO) performs better than TEG with MPPT.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/577039
UR - http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1359431115008558
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84943246173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.08.059
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.08.059
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 91
SP - 1082
EP - 1091
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
ER -