Scalable Cost/Performance Analysis for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Systems

Exergy Analysis and Entropy Generation Minimization of Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery for Electronics

Energy recovery from waste heat is attracting more and more attention. All electronic systems consume electricity but only a fraction of it is used for information processing and for human interfaces, such as displays. Lots of energy is dissipated as heat. There are some discussions on waste heat recovery from the electronic systems such as laptop computers. However the efficiency of energy con...

Cost-effective waste heat recovery using thermoelectric systems

A Review on Electroactive Polymers for Waste Heat Recovery

This paper reviews materials for thermoelectric waste heat recovery, and discusses selected industrial and distributed waste heat sources as well as recovery methods that are currently applied. Thermoelectric properties, especially electrical conductivity, thermopower, thermal conductivity and the thermoelectric figures of merit, are considered when evaluating thermoelectric materials for waste...

Title: Optimal Design of Thermoelectric Generators for Low Grade Heat Recovery Developed by Dr. HoSung Lee on 12/15/2014

Low-grade waste heat conversion to electricity has drawn much attention toward reduction of production cost (Matsuura, Rowe et al. 1992, Rowe 1995, Ebrahimi, Jones et al. 2014). Organic Rankine cycle has been recently proved as a feasible solution with about 7% thermal efficiency and initial cost of about $2/watt for a high temperature of 116 °C and low temperature of 25 °C (Imran, Park et al. ...

Novel Materials and Packaging for Thermoelectric Waste-Heat Recovery in Building and Transportation Systems

Thermoelectric recovery is promising for improved efficiency in a broad variety of combustion systems, but thermal interface resistances and the need for scalable and package-compatible thermoelectric materials is a major roadblock. We report progress on six different activities this year, which are all in support of the major goal of novel materials for thermoelectric waste-heat recovery: 1) T...