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A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator

Be it in the power production or consumption end, improvement on the power efficiency has become one of the most pivoting research topics over the past few decades. In order to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and negative impacts on the environment, many ways are found to show promising results...

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Main Authors: Chen C.-P., Koh S.-P., Tiong S.-K., Tan J.-D., Fong A.Y.-C.
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Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 2023
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-249422023-05-29T15:29:13Z A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator Chen C.-P. Koh S.-P. Tiong S.-K. Tan J.-D. Fong A.Y.-C. 25824552100 22951210700 15128307800 38863172300 57211336048 Be it in the power production or consumption end, improvement on the power efficiency has become one of the most pivoting research topics over the past few decades. In order to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and negative impacts on the environment, many ways are found to show promising results to increase power efficiency. One of the most effective ways is to recover and reuse heat waste. In this research, a heat waste recovery system is proposed by using thermoelectric generators (TEGs). This proposed heat recovery system can be implemented at the exhaust or the chiller section of a power system to abstract the excessive and unwanted heat and reuse it before it dissipates into the environment or goes to waste. Experiments are setup and conducted with controlled heat levels to investigate the performance of the proposed system in converting heat waste into electricity under different temperatures. The results show that the generated power hikes as the heat set-points increase from 30�C to 240�C. The output power fluctuates and shows no significant increase as the temperature increases from 240�C onwards. The maximum power is generated at 290�C. It can thus be concluded that the proposed system successfully generates electricity under different level of heat waste temperature. In time to come, this research can further explore the possibility on the optimization of the generated power. Copyright � 2019 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Final 2023-05-29T07:29:13Z 2023-05-29T07:29:13Z 2019 Article 10.11591/ijeecs.v16.i2.pp586-590 2-s2.0-85073561082 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073561082&doi=10.11591%2fijeecs.v16.i2.pp586-590&partnerID=40&md5=312dc3075a1e3b3ce0b7c9f7bdfe1293 https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/24942 16 2 586 590 All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science Scopus
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description Be it in the power production or consumption end, improvement on the power efficiency has become one of the most pivoting research topics over the past few decades. In order to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and negative impacts on the environment, many ways are found to show promising results to increase power efficiency. One of the most effective ways is to recover and reuse heat waste. In this research, a heat waste recovery system is proposed by using thermoelectric generators (TEGs). This proposed heat recovery system can be implemented at the exhaust or the chiller section of a power system to abstract the excessive and unwanted heat and reuse it before it dissipates into the environment or goes to waste. Experiments are setup and conducted with controlled heat levels to investigate the performance of the proposed system in converting heat waste into electricity under different temperatures. The results show that the generated power hikes as the heat set-points increase from 30�C to 240�C. The output power fluctuates and shows no significant increase as the temperature increases from 240�C onwards. The maximum power is generated at 290�C. It can thus be concluded that the proposed system successfully generates electricity under different level of heat waste temperature. In time to come, this research can further explore the possibility on the optimization of the generated power. Copyright � 2019 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.
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Chen C.-P.
Koh S.-P.
Tiong S.-K.
Tan J.-D.
Fong A.Y.-C.
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author Chen C.-P.
Koh S.-P.
Tiong S.-K.
Tan J.-D.
Fong A.Y.-C.
spellingShingle Chen C.-P.
Koh S.-P.
Tiong S.-K.
Tan J.-D.
Fong A.Y.-C.
A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
author_sort Chen C.-P.
title A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
title_short A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
title_full A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
title_fullStr A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
title_full_unstemmed A heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
title_sort heat waste recovery system via thermoelectric generator
publisher Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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