Thermal flow and thermoelectricity characteristics in a sandwich flat plate thermoelectric power generation device under diesel engine exhaust conditions

Peiyong Ni, Ruidong Hua, Hangyu Jiang, Xiangli Wang, Xuewen Zhang and Xiang Li

Energy, 2024, vol. 308, issue C

Abstract: Thermoelectric power generation (TEG) technology can be used to recover exhaust waste heat, but its effective application is restricted by bulky size and low thermoelectric conversion efficiency. The compactness evaluation of thermoelectric devices characterized by the power density is lacking. In this paper, a three-dimensional thermal flow and thermoelectricity multi-physics field model of a sandwich flat plate TEG device with multi-layer thermoelectric modules (TEMs) was established. An engine thermoelectric recovery bench test was carried out to verify the model and present the thermal parameters and output performance. The thermal, flow and electrical field distributions of the TEG device, as well as voltage, power and conversion efficiency with engine loads, and power density, were presented. The results show that the hot side temperatures, voltages and powers for each thermoelectric module (TEM) are greatly affected by the position occupied by the TEMs and engine loads. At full load and the coolant flow of 8.5 L/min, the device achieves the peak values of the power of 80.9 W and thermoelectric efficiency of 2.1 %, respectively. The device shows good compactness with the power density of 19.8 kW/m3, attributed to the reasonable arrangement of the collectors, coolers, and TEMs. This work can provide some insights of the relationship between the structural form and size, thermal parameters, electrical parameters and conversion efficiency of the sandwich type TEG device.

Keywords: Thermoelectric generator; Thermoelectric conversion efficiency; Power density; Waste heat recovery; Diesel engine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.132815

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