TY - JOUR
T1 - Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials (Bi 0.4 Sb 1.6 Te 3 /Bi 1.75 Te 3.25 ) and Integration into Window Glasses for Thermoelectricity Generation
AU - Inayat, Salman Bin
AU - Rader, Kelly
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge the financial support of Baseline Research Funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and the GRP Collaborative Fellow Award (to SBI) (GRP-CF-2011-01-S). MMH conceived the idea and directed the study. SBI performed the study. S. B. I. and M. M. H. analyzed the data.
PY - 2014/2/26
Y1 - 2014/2/26
N2 - We embed thermoelectric nanomaterials into window glass to generate thermoelectricity from the temperature gradient between the solar-heated outdoors and the relatively cold indoor temperature. Until now thermoelectric generators have been built on a single side of a substrate, therefore requiring the two temperature environments to exist on the same side of the substrate. For this application, substantially thick window glass (>5 mm) serves as the interface for which the hot side is on the exterior side of the window and the cold side on the interior side. We demonstrate thermopiles made of nanomaterials integrated through the glass. With meticulous engineering, 300 W of power can be generated from a 9 m(2) window for a temperature gradient of 20 degrees C, which is typical in hot climates, such as the desert areas in the Middle East and African Sahara. A thermoelectric window can be a supplementary power source for waste heat recovery in green building technology.
AB - We embed thermoelectric nanomaterials into window glass to generate thermoelectricity from the temperature gradient between the solar-heated outdoors and the relatively cold indoor temperature. Until now thermoelectric generators have been built on a single side of a substrate, therefore requiring the two temperature environments to exist on the same side of the substrate. For this application, substantially thick window glass (>5 mm) serves as the interface for which the hot side is on the exterior side of the window and the cold side on the interior side. We demonstrate thermopiles made of nanomaterials integrated through the glass. With meticulous engineering, 300 W of power can be generated from a 9 m(2) window for a temperature gradient of 20 degrees C, which is typical in hot climates, such as the desert areas in the Middle East and African Sahara. A thermoelectric window can be a supplementary power source for waste heat recovery in green building technology.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/575594
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ente.201300166
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991396743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/ente.201300166
DO - 10.1002/ente.201300166
M3 - Article
SN - 2194-4288
VL - 2
SP - 292
EP - 299
JO - Energy Technology
JF - Energy Technology
IS - 3
ER -