Methodological Considerations of Using Thermoelectrics with Fin Heat Sinks for Cooling Applications
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Abstract
An experimental investigation was conducted to evaluate the performance of a thermoelectric (TE) module fitted to a conventional fin heat sink with a similar sized heat source. Experiments were conducted with power inputs at 10 W and 20 W under natural convection (NC) and forced convection (FC) air cooling. The results showed that the use of the TE module is not effective under the NC cooling mode. With the present TE module employed, under FC cooling at 20 W, the applied voltage (Vte) to the TE module should be >4 V and at 10 W, it should be >1 V. A simple iterative method of predicting the hot side temperature of the TE module was presented. Agreement between predicted and experimental values was better than 2%.
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OpenAlex topics: Heat Transfer and Optimization · Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices · Phase Change Materials Research
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Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology, UniversitiTunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar 31900, Malaysia
Funding
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman · CREST
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