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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,998 Views
14 Pages

Local Heating through the Application of a Thermoelectric Heat Pump for Prenursery Pigs

  • Dmitry Tikhomirov,
  • Aleksei Khimenko,
  • Aleksey Kuzmichev,
  • Vadim Bolshev,
  • Gennady Samarin and
  • Ivan Ignatkin

Mathematical formulation of the animal thermal status has been developed, with the account of two convenience conditions and heat balance, for the floor-mounted heating panel for prenursery pigs. The borders of the heat flux variation range for the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,530 Views
18 Pages

5 January 2018

A thermodynamic model of a thermoelectric generator-driven thermoelectric heat pump (TEG-TEH) combined device is established considering the Thomson effect and the temperature dependence of the thermoelectric properties based on non-equilibrium therm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,959 Views
15 Pages

Raising the Drying Unit for Fruits and Vegetables Energy Efficiency by Application of Thermoelectric Heat Pump

  • Dmitry Tikhomirov,
  • Aleksei Khimenko,
  • Aleksey Kuzmichev,
  • Dmitry Budnikov and
  • Vadim Bolshev

Drying food stuffs and other materials belongs to one of the most commonly used feedstock processing techniques, featuring rather high energy consumption. The major disadvantage of conventional electric convective-type household dryers is substantial...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,874 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2024

Nowadays, increasing the penetration of renewable heat technologies is an important approach to minimise global primary energy use and reduce CO2 emissions for a sustainable future. Thermoelectric heat pumps, which have some unique characteristics in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,800 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2017

The main objective of this study was to develop a thermoelectric heat pump and liquid desiccant system based on a dedicated outdoor air system (THPLD-DOAS). An internally-cooled and -heated liquid desiccant system was used and a thermoelectric heat p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,212 Views
24 Pages

10 June 2019

A proper operating temperature range and an acceptable temperature uniformity are extremely essential for the efficient and safe operation of the Li-ion battery array, which is an important power source of space stations. The single-phase fluid loop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,783 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2022

In order to improve the efficiency of the system and promote its application in other industries, the performance of a thermoelectric subcooled CO2 transcritical heat pump system was studied. A simulation model of the system was established using ste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,702 Views
25 Pages

16 December 2024

This paper proposes an innovative system that integrates two thermoelectric heat pumps (one air–water and the other water–water) with two thermal storage tanks at different temperatures to provide heating and domestic hot water to a 73.3...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,256 Views
14 Pages

7 March 2018

This study aims to estimate the performance of thermoelectric module (TEM) heat pump for simultaneous liquid cooling and heating and propose empirical models for predicting the heat exchange effectiveness. The experiments were conducted to investigat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,652 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Study to Analyze Feasibility of a Novel Panelized Ground-Source Thermoelectric System for Building Space Heating and Cooling

  • Rui Miao,
  • Xiaoou Hu,
  • Yao Yu,
  • Qifeng Zhang,
  • Zhibin Lin,
  • Abdulaziz Banawi and
  • Ahmed Cherif Megri

29 December 2021

A thermoelectric module is a device that converts electrical energy into thermal energy through a mechanism known as the Peltier effect. A Peltier device has hot and cold sides/substrates, and heat can be pumped from the cold side to the hot side und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,460 Views
20 Pages

The collaboration project UNICARagil aiming to develop new autonomous battery electric vehicle concepts has progressed and the four vehicle prototypes have been built up. All seven universities and six industrial partners have worked towards this mil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,388 Views
21 Pages

3 October 2019

A fast-paced energy transition needs a higher penetration of renewables, of heating and cooling in the worldwide energy mix. With three novelties 1-of using shallow high-pressure LRC (Lined Rock Cavern) excavated close to storage needs, 2-of using a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,258 Views
13 Pages

21 July 2021

The urgent energy transition needs a better penetration of renewable energy in the world’s energy mix. The intermittency of renewables requires the use of longer-term storage. The present system uses water displacement, in a lined rock cavern or in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,665 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2024

Peltier cells are commonly used in low-power cooling applications, such as automotive refrigerators and electronics temperature regulation systems. These applications are typically low-energy in nature. There is currently a growing emphasis on energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,382 Views
19 Pages

22 January 2024

The effective utilization of renewable energy has become critical to technological advancement for the energetic transition from fossil fuels to clean and sustainable sources. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology, which generates electri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,206 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2024

A regional integrated energy system (RIES), synergizing multiple energy forms, is pivotal for enhancing renewable energy use and mitigating the greenhouse effect. Considering that the equipment of the current regional comprehensive energy system is r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,201 Views
16 Pages

3 September 2018

Thermoelectric system’s operation needs careful attention to ensure optimal power conversion depending on the application aims. As a ternary diagram of bithermal systems allows a synthetic graphical analysis of the performance attainable by any...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,739 Views
19 Pages

2 February 2024

This research focuses on enhancing the efficiency of Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric generators (TEGs) in ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) systems through innovative heat exchanger designs. Our comparative study uses computer simulations to evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,680 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Ni Doping on the Thermoelectric Properties of YbCo2Zn20

  • Jorge R. Galeano-Cabral,
  • Benny Schundelmier,
  • Olatunde Oladehin,
  • Keke Feng,
  • Juan C. Ordonez,
  • Ryan E. Baumbach and
  • Kaya Wei

19 April 2024

Thermoelectric devices are both solid-state heat pumps and energy generators. Having a reversible process without moving parts is of high importance for applications in remote locations or under extreme conditions. Yet, most thermoelectric devices ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,481 Views
18 Pages

Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Thermoelectric-Based Dehumidifier for Greenhouses

  • Xiaobei Han,
  • Tianxiang Liu,
  • Yuliang Cai,
  • Dequn Wang,
  • Xiaoming Wei,
  • Yunrui Hai,
  • Rongchao Shi and
  • Wenzhong Guo

15 May 2025

Crops in greenhouses located in cold climates are frequently affected by high relative humidity (RH). This study presents the design, testing, and analysis of a dehumidifier based on thermoelectric cooling. Thermoelectric dehumidifiers (TEDs) are cap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
907 Views
12 Pages

27 February 2025

Starting from Ioffe’s description of a thermoelectric converter, we recover the optimal working points of conversion: the point of maximum efficiency and the one of maximal power. Inspired by biological converters’ optimization, we comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,881 Views
12 Pages

22 January 2024

Traditional thermoelectric materials often face a trade-off between efficient power generation (high ZT) and cooling performance. Here, we explore the potential of achieving simultaneous thermoelectric power generation and cooling capability in the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,182 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2019

In the study of natural gas hydrates, the maintenance of the low-temperature and high-pressure state of the core sample under in situ conditions is highly important for cutting, transferring, and subsequent analysis. The pressure maintenance and temp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,112 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2017

The article deals with the use of modern materials and technologies that can improve the thermal comfort in buildings. The article describes the design and usage of a special accumulation device, which is composed of thermal panels based on phase cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,655 Views
15 Pages

Employing the Peltier Effect to Control Motor Operating Temperatures

  • Stephen Lucas,
  • Romeo Marian,
  • Michael Lucas,
  • Titilayo Ogunwa and
  • Javaan Chahl

6 March 2023

Electrical insulation failure is the most common failure mechanism in electrical machines (motors and generators). High temperatures and/or temperature gradients (HTTG) are the main drivers of insulation failure in electrical machines. HTTG combine w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,204 Views
14 Pages

A Tunable Mid-Infrared Solid-State Laser with a Compact Thermal Control System

  • Deyang Yu,
  • Yang He,
  • Kuo Zhang,
  • Qikun Pan,
  • Fei Chen and
  • Lihong Guo

26 May 2018

Tunable mid-infrared lasers are widely used in laser spectroscopy, gas sensing and many other related areas. In order to solve heat dissipation problems and improve the environmental temperature adaptability of solid-state laser sources, a tunable al...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,755 Views
21 Pages

Thermo-Electric Energy Storage with Solar Heat Integration: Exergy and Exergo-Economic Analysis

  • Daniele Fiaschi,
  • Giampaolo Manfrida,
  • Karolina Petela and
  • Lorenzo Talluri

17 February 2019

A Thermo-Electric Energy Storage (TEES) system is proposed to provide peak-load support (1–2 daily hours of operation) for distributed users using small/medium-size photovoltaic systems (4 to 50 kWe). The purpose is to complement the PV with a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,601 Views
9 Pages

Optimization of Waterblock Cooling Water Flow Rate in a Thermoelectric Generator Charcoal Furnace

  • Hendi Lilih Wijayanto,
  • Angga Tegar Setiawan,
  • Amiruddin,
  • Yusdianto and
  • Nugroho Tri Atmoko

In this research, a thermoelectric generator is used to absorb waste heat on the walls of a wood charcoal burning stove to produce electrical energy. The research was carried out using 4 Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs) attached to the outer wall of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Views
21 Pages

Investigation of the Influence Mechanism and Analysis of Engineering Application of the Solar PVT Heat Pump Cogeneration System

  • Yujia Wu,
  • Zihua Li,
  • Yixian Zhang,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Gang Zhang,
  • Xiaolan Wang,
  • Xuanyue Zhang and
  • Zhiyan Li

16 January 2026

Amidst the ongoing global energy crisis, environmental deterioration, and the exacerbation of climate change, the development of renewable energy, particularly solar energy, has become a central topic in the global energy transition. This study inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,450 Views
9 Pages

Design, Construction and Characterization of Sealed Tube Medium Power CO2 Laser System

  • Muddasir Naeem,
  • Tayyab Imran,
  • Mukhtar Hussain and
  • Arshad Saleem Bhatti

A low-cost medium-power carbon dioxide (CO2) laser system is designed, constructed, and characterized to produce coherent, monochromatic laser radiation in the infrared region. The laser cavity is simulated and designed by using ZEMAX optic studio. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,249 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2019

Waste heat that is available in the flue gas of power plant stacks is a potential source of useful thermal power. In reclaiming and utilizing this waste heat without compromising plant efficiency, stacks usually need to be equipped with forced-draugh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,183 Views
25 Pages

An Innovative Solar-Biomass Energy System to Increase the Share of Renewables in Office Buildings

  • Valeria Palomba,
  • Emiliano Borri,
  • Antonios Charalampidis,
  • Andrea Frazzica,
  • Sotirios Karellas and
  • Luisa F. Cabeza

9 February 2021

Increasing the energy efficiency of residential and non-residential buildings is a crucial point towards the development of the sustainable cities of the future. To reach such a goal, the commonly employed intervention measures (for instance, on faca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,827 Views
16 Pages

Research in Life Extension of Electrical Motors by Controlling the Impact of the Environment through Employing Peltier Effect

  • Stephen Lucas,
  • Romeo Marian,
  • Michael Lucas,
  • Saiful Bari,
  • Titilayo Ogunwa and
  • Javaan Chahl

17 October 2022

This paper explores the application of thermoelectric cooler/heater (TEC) modules (Peltier heat pumps devices) to control core and winding temperatures, aiming to reduce the effects of thermal cycling and moisture issues that affect the life of elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,507 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2023

To achieve a balance between supply and demand during cogeneration system operation, it is necessary to improve the peak regulation capacity and regulatory flexibility of the unit. Considering the excellent performance of energy storage systems, a he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,870 Views
20 Pages

4 May 2023

One of the significant factors contributing to high energy consumption is the unutilized waste heat from flue gas in industrial boilers. Thermoelectric generator (TEG) technology can directly convert thermal energy into electrical energy, and has bee...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,134 Views
27 Pages

Zero-Carbon Development in Data Centers Using Waste Heat Recovery Technology: A Systematic Review

  • Lingfei Zhang,
  • Zhanwen Zhao,
  • Bohang Chen,
  • Mingyu Zhao and
  • Yangyang Chen

12 November 2025

The rapid advancement of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing has driven continuous expansion of global data centers, resulting in increasingly severe energy consumption and carbon emission challenges. According...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,859 Views
20 Pages

Complex Fluid Flow in Microchannels and Heat Pipes with Enhanced Surfaces for Advanced Heat Conversion and Recovery Systems

  • Ana Sofia Moita,
  • Pedro Pontes,
  • Lourenço Martins,
  • Miguel Coelho,
  • Oscar Carvalho,
  • F. P. Brito and
  • António Luís N. Moreira

17 February 2022

This paper addresses a multiscale approach for heat recovery systems, used in two distinct applications. In both applications, a microscale approach is used (microchannel heat sinks and heat pipes) for macroscale applications (cooling of a photovolta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,367 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2020

With regard to concerns about an electric vehicle’s driving range extension in a cold climate, an air-conditioning heat pump (ACHP) shows considerable advantage over thermoelectric heaters for battery energy conservation. The effect of refriger...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,087 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2025

This study proposes a vertically stacked thermoelectric generator (TEG) design to enhance output power per unit volume. While the proposed TEG achieved improved conversion efficiency, the high inertia of the exhaust gas leads to significant flow mald...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,236 Views
19 Pages

Operational Optimisation of a Non-Recuperative 1-kWe Organic Rankine Cycle Engine Prototype

  • Chinedu K. Unamba,
  • Paul Sapin,
  • Xiaoya Li,
  • Jian Song,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Gequn Shu,
  • Hua Tian and
  • Christos N. Markides

26 July 2019

Several heat-to-power conversion technologies are being proposed as suitable for waste-heat recovery (WHR) applications, including thermoelectric generators, hot-air (e.g., Ericsson or Stirling) engines and vapour-cycle engines such as steam or organ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,517 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2016

In the previous papers, the idea of “hidden oscillations” has been applied to explain work generation in semiconductor photovoltaic cells and thermoelectric generators. The aim of this paper is firstly to extend this approach to fuel cells and, secon...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,985 Views
27 Pages

Next-Generation Quantum Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

  • Shiva Kumar Singh,
  • Julian Munevar,
  • Letície Mendonça-Ferreira and
  • Marcos A. Avila

21 July 2023

This review presents the recent advances in the search for thermoelectric (TE) materials, mostly among intermetallic compounds and in the enhancement of their TE performance. Herein, contemporary approaches towards improving the efficiency of heat&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,124 Views
21 Pages

Renewable Energy Source (RES)-Based Polygeneration Systems for Multi-Family Houses

  • Javier Uche,
  • Amaya Martínez-Gracia,
  • Ignacio Zabalza and
  • Sergio Usón

23 January 2024

This research work synthetizes the energy, economic, and environmental aspects of a novel configurational analysis of four polygeneration schemes designed to fulfill the demands of a multi-family building that includes 12 dwellings. The design aims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,800 Views
21 Pages

Exergo-Economic and Environmental Analysis of a Solar Integrated Thermo-Electric Storage

  • Daniele Fiaschi,
  • Giampaolo Manfrida,
  • Karolina Petela,
  • Federico Rossi,
  • Adalgisa Sinicropi and
  • Lorenzo Talluri

6 July 2020

Renewable energies are often subject to stochastic resources and daily cycles. Energy storage systems are consequently applied to provide a solution for the mismatch between power production possibility and its utilization period. In this study, a so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,207 Views
54 Pages

30 August 2021

This paper addresses the challenges the policymakers face concerning the EU decarbonization and total electrification roadmaps towards the Paris Agreement set forth to solve the global warming problem within the framework of a 100% renewable heating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,171 Views
14 Pages

15 September 2021

The passive radiative cooling approach refers to the physical process that pumps heat into outer space via the atmospheric window (8–13 μm) without energy input. The ability to continuously adjust the emissivity of thermal emitters in the sky window...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,082 Views
22 Pages

The compound energy system is an important component of zero-carbon buildings. Due to the complex form of the system and the difficult-to-capture characteristics of thermo-electric coupling interactions, the operation control of the zero-carbon build...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,846 Views
22 Pages

A Sustainable Polygeneration System for a Residential Building

  • Javier Uche,
  • Ignacio Zabalza,
  • Luis G. Gesteira,
  • Amaya Martínez-Gracia and
  • Sergio Usón

18 December 2022

In line with the decarbonization of the domestic sector to meet the 2050 climate neutrality targets, this paper describes the energy, economic, and environmental analysis of a set of different novel configurations of polygeneration installations to p...