Effect of conjugate heat transfer in designing thermoelectric beverage cooler

Authors

  • Akram Gholami Pareh Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  • Farshad Torabi Mechanical Engineering Faculty, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  • Mojtaba Maktabifard Renewable Energies Department, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
  • Zahra Ojaghi Seyed Saran Mechanical Engineering Faculty, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract:

Peltier technology opens new opportunities for specialapplications. In the current project, this technology was appliedto design and fabricate a portable thermoelectric beveragecooler and thermoelectric cup. The simulation and results of theexperiment showed that the common beverage cooler is not asuitable design for ignoring the effect of natural convection incooling. In our thermoelectric cup, the drawbacks of previousdesign were eliminated. The advantages of the present designover the former design are the heat sink's temperature reductionfrom 60°C to about 31°C, and the cooling process enhancement,such that the water was cooled down to about 7°C.

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volume 3  issue 2

pages  83- 95

publication date 2015-09-01

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