Comprehensive numerical modeling of thermoelectric devices applied to automotive exhaust gas waste-heat recovery

ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, HT 2013

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Reddy, B V K ^a   Barry, Matthew ^a   Li, John ^a   Chyu, Minking K ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST; CERAMIC PLATES; HOT FLUID FLOW; INSULATION MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES; THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; WASTE-HEAT RECOVERY;

AIR; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXHAUST GASES; FLOW RATE; FUEL CELLS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRATES; INSULATING MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WASTE HEAT;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84892951737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2013-17454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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