Heat Exchangers for Thermoelectric Devices
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چکیده
Heat exchangers play an important role in the performance of thermal machines, namely, electric power generators, engines and refrigerators. Regarding thermoelectrics, this influence is even higher, owing to the difficulty of transferring heat from the small surface area of a typical thermoelectric module to a bigger one. Particularly, in the hot face of an average 40 mm x 40 mm Peltier module, the heat flux readily yields 40600 W/m2. The thermoelectric effects, namely, Joule, Seebeck, Peltier and Thomson, describe the interaction between thermal and electric fields, and are well known since the XIX century (Rowe, 2006).
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