Designing high efficiency segmented thermoelectric generators

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-172

  Hadjistassou, Constantinos ^a   Kyriakides, Elias ^a   Georgiou, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Computational model; Efficiency; Segmented; Temperature; Thermoelectric generator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ELECTRICAL-RESISTANCE RATIOS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY; PBTE; PEAK EFFICIENCY; SEGMENTED; SOURCE AND SINK; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DESIGN; ELECTRIC LOADS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84869864436     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2012.07.030     Document Type: Article

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