A Novel Solar System of Electricity and Heat

Thermoelectric devices may have an essential role in the development of fuel-saving, environmentallyfriendly, and cost-effective energy sources for power generation based on direct conversion heat into electrical energy. A wide usage thermoelectric systems already exhibits high reliability long operation time space industry gas pipe systems. The application solar generators (TEGs) arelimited mainly by relatively low efficiency. Forthe first time, we propose to use TEGs high-performance multilayer modules with electric efficiency ~15%. Solar was absorbed converted thermal energy, which is accumulated a phase-change material (aluminum alloys at solidification temperature ~900 K). flow from accumulator through convertor (generator) allows be obtained exhaust used household purposes (heating hot water supply) or plant desalination water.