Design and fabrication of heat storage thermoelectric harvesting devices

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 302-309

  Kiziroglou, Michail E ^a   Wright, Steven W ^a   Toh, Tzern T ^a   Mitcheson, Paul D ^a   Becker, Th ^b   Yeatman, Eric M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avionics; energy harvesting; heat storage; phase change material (PCM); thermoelectric; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AVIONICS; ENERGY HARVESTING; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; MATCHED RESISTIVE LOAD; STRUCTURAL MONITORING; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY;

HEAT STORAGE;

EID: 84880893464     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2257140     Document Type: Article

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