A New Concept of Energy Recovery and Cooling Solution for Integrated Circuit Heat Using Thermoelectric Technology

-Waste heat from electronic components in information and telecommunication equipment is not trivial. Especially, contemporary Integrated Circuits(IC’s) in computers, servers and telecommunication equipment dissipate more amount of total energy as heat energy to the environment. Additionally, coolers have to be used in large amount to dissipate the heat from those equipments. Companies often spend large sums for cooling network servers, but we have found a way to cut those costs by using computer-generated heat to produce electricity. Energy recovered from the waste heat of IC’s might be utilized for providing backup electricity in an emergency situation or providing electricity to drive electrical components. Thermoelectric generators are solid-state energy converters that combine thermal and electrical properties to convert heat into electricity or electrical power directly into cooling. Effective energy recovery may improve energy efficiencies and also life of IC and the equipment. This paper demonstrates the performance of a thermoelectric energy recovery module (TERM) in extracting the waste from electronics devices and their corresponding output was plotted and compared with ideal module.