Heat transfer and geometrical analysis of thermoelectric converters driven by concentrated solar radiation

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2735-2752

  Suter, Clemens ^a   Tomeš, Petr ^b   Weidenkaff, Anke ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Modeling; Optimization; Radiation; Solar; Thermoelectric converter; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MEASURED TEMPERATURES; SOLAR; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTER;

ENERGY CONVERSION; HEAT RADIATION; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 79956125496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3042735     Document Type: Article

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