Sustainable thermoelectric power system using concentrated solar energy and latent heat storage

PECon 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 105-109

  Tan, Lippong ^a   Singh, Baljit ^a,b   Date, Abhijit ^a   Akbarzadeh, Aliakbar ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

paraffin wax; passive cooling; phase change material; Thermoelectric generator

Indexed keywords

COLD SIDE; CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL RIGS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDOOR EXPERIMENT; MOVING PARTS; PASSIVE COOLING; PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL (PCM); SOLAR CONCENTRATION; SUSTAINABLE POWER SYSTEMS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MODULES; THERMOELECTRIC CELLS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS;

HEAT STORAGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; LATENT HEAT; PARAFFIN WAXES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRICITY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84874497301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PECon.2012.6450187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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