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Factorial study on seated aircraft passengers’ body heat harvesting

The increased electrical power demand for aircraft subsystems drives the search for a new alternative onboard power source. One of the solutions that have been proposed is the heat energy harvesting of the aircraft passengers’ body. Taking advantage of the Seebeck effect phenomenon, the dissipated h...

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Main Authors:	Romli, Fairuz Izzudin, Salim, Salim Mkubwa
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering 2020
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/1/HEAT.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/ http://www.warse.org/IJETER/archives/archivesDetiles/?heading=Volume%208%20No.%204%20(2020)
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spelling	my.upm.eprints.889522021-10-04T23:19:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/ Factorial study on seated aircraft passengers’ body heat harvesting Romli, Fairuz Izzudin Salim, Salim Mkubwa The increased electrical power demand for aircraft subsystems drives the search for a new alternative onboard power source. One of the solutions that have been proposed is the heat energy harvesting of the aircraft passengers’ body. Taking advantage of the Seebeck effect phenomenon, the dissipated heat from seated passengers’ body can be converted into useful electrical power using a thermoelectric generator. The main objective of this study is to establish whether the performance of such heat harvesting system is highly dependent on the passengers’ body features and cabin environmental temperature. An experiment with 10 volunteers using a mock-up aircraft passenger cabin setup is conducted and the temperature readings when they are seated on the aircraft seat is recorded through installed thermal sensors. The collected data is then analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method to find the factorial contribution of volunteers’ age, weight, height and gender, plus the ambient temperature, on the performance of the heat harvesting system. In this case, potential performance of such energy harvesting is measured by the maximum temperature differential that can be possibly obtained. Based on ANOVA results, the passengers’ weight, height, age and gender do not have a significant effect on the temperature differential. This can be taken to imply that the heat harvesting performance is not highly dependent on the passengers’ characteristics. In contrast, ambient temperature is found to be influential, meaning that operational performance of such heat harvesting mechanism can be controlled through appropriate setting of the cabin environmental temperature. The World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/1/HEAT.pdf Romli, Fairuz Izzudin and Salim, Salim Mkubwa (2020) Factorial study on seated aircraft passengers’ body heat harvesting. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 8 (4). 1309 - 1314. ISSN 2347-3983 http://www.warse.org/IJETER/archives/archivesDetiles/?heading=Volume%208%20No.%204%20(2020) 10.30534/ijeter/2020/60842020
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description	The increased electrical power demand for aircraft subsystems drives the search for a new alternative onboard power source. One of the solutions that have been proposed is the heat energy harvesting of the aircraft passengers’ body. Taking advantage of the Seebeck effect phenomenon, the dissipated heat from seated passengers’ body can be converted into useful electrical power using a thermoelectric generator. The main objective of this study is to establish whether the performance of such heat harvesting system is highly dependent on the passengers’ body features and cabin environmental temperature. An experiment with 10 volunteers using a mock-up aircraft passenger cabin setup is conducted and the temperature readings when they are seated on the aircraft seat is recorded through installed thermal sensors. The collected data is then analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method to find the factorial contribution of volunteers’ age, weight, height and gender, plus the ambient temperature, on the performance of the heat harvesting system. In this case, potential performance of such energy harvesting is measured by the maximum temperature differential that can be possibly obtained. Based on ANOVA results, the passengers’ weight, height, age and gender do not have a significant effect on the temperature differential. This can be taken to imply that the heat harvesting performance is not highly dependent on the passengers’ characteristics. In contrast, ambient temperature is found to be influential, meaning that operational performance of such heat harvesting mechanism can be controlled through appropriate setting of the cabin environmental temperature.
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title	Factorial study on seated aircraft passengers’ body heat harvesting
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publisher	The World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering
publishDate	2020
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/1/HEAT.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88952/ http://www.warse.org/IJETER/archives/archivesDetiles/?heading=Volume%208%20No.%204%20(2020)
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