IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/appene/v183y2016icp61-76.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Electric power generation via plate type power generation unit from solar pond using thermoelectric cells

Author

Listed:
  • Ding, L.C.
  • Akbarzadeh, A.
  • Date, Abhijit

Abstract

Solar pond (SP) has been a reliable supply of heat source for heating process that requires temperature <100°C. In this work, the capability of solar pond in generating electricity has been explored experimentally using a plate type power generation unit (PTPGU). The open channel PTPGU was designed and fabricated in order to accommodate the TECs. The heat stored in the lower convective zone (LCZ) is used as the heat source needed for generating electricity by utilising thermoelectric cells (TECs) and thus a combined SP-PTPGU system is proposed. The PTPGU was tested with different hot water temperatures and flow rates. Also, the possibility of performance enhancement utilising copper mesh as insertion is presented. From the testing conducted, the PTPGU is able to generate 35.9W of electricity at the flow rate as low as 5.1 LPM (litre per minute) at the hot water temperature of 81°C. Besides coupling with solar pond, the PTPGU designed can also be coupled with other type of hot water source, such as hot spring.

Suggested Citation

  • Ding, L.C. & Akbarzadeh, A. & Date, Abhijit, 2016. "Electric power generation via plate type power generation unit from solar pond using thermoelectric cells," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 61-76.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:183:y:2016:i:c:p:61-76
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.161
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261916312703
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.161?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. He, Wei & Zhang, Gan & Zhang, Xingxing & Ji, Jie & Li, Guiqiang & Zhao, Xudong, 2015. "Recent development and application of thermoelectric generator and cooler," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 1-25.
    2. Suter, C. & Jovanovic, Z.R. & Steinfeld, A., 2012. "A 1kWe thermoelectric stack for geothermal power generation – Modeling and geometrical optimization," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 379-385.
    3. Rowe, D.M., 1999. "Thermoelectrics, an environmentally-friendly source of electrical power," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1251-1256.
    4. Hsu, Cheng-Ting & Huang, Gia-Yeh & Chu, Hsu-Shen & Yu, Ben & Yao, Da-Jeng, 2011. "Experiments and simulations on low-temperature waste heat harvesting system by thermoelectric power generators," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(4), pages 1291-1297, April.
    5. Zheng, X.F. & Liu, C.X. & Yan, Y.Y. & Wang, Q., 2014. "A review of thermoelectrics research – Recent developments and potentials for sustainable and renewable energy applications," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 486-503.
    6. Wang, Y.F. & Akbarzadeh, A., 1982. "A study on the transient behaviour of solar ponds," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 7(12), pages 1005-1017.
    7. Lu, Hongliang & Wu, Ting & Bai, Shengqiang & Xu, Kangcong & Huang, Yingjie & Gao, Weimin & Yin, Xianglin & Chen, Lidong, 2013. "Experiment on thermal uniformity and pressure drop of exhaust heat exchanger for automotive thermoelectric generator," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 372-377.
    8. Massaguer, Eduard & Massaguer, Albert & Montoro, Lino & Gonzalez, J.R., 2015. "Modeling analysis of longitudinal thermoelectric energy harvester in low temperature waste heat recovery applications," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 184-195.
    9. Gou, Xiaolong & Xiao, Heng & Yang, Suwen, 2010. "Modeling, experimental study and optimization on low-temperature waste heat thermoelectric generator system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 87(10), pages 3131-3136, October.
    10. Montecucco, Andrea & Siviter, Jonathan & Knox, Andrew R., 2014. "The effect of temperature mismatch on thermoelectric generators electrically connected in series and parallel," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 47-54.
    11. Tchanche, Bertrand F. & Lambrinos, Gr. & Frangoudakis, A. & Papadakis, G., 2011. "Low-grade heat conversion into power using organic Rankine cycles – A review of various applications," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 15(8), pages 3963-3979.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Benday, Naman S. & Dryden, Daniel M. & Kornbluth, Kurt & Stroeve, Pieter, 2017. "A temperature-variant method for performance modeling and economic analysis of thermoelectric generators: Linking material properties to real-world conditions," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 764-771.
    2. Ding, L.C. & Akbarzadeh, A. & Tan, L., 2018. "A review of power generation with thermoelectric system and its alternative with solar ponds," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P1), pages 799-812.
    3. khanmohammadi, Shoaib & Saadat-Targhi, Morteza, 2019. "Performance enhancement of an integrated system with solar flat plate collector for hydrogen production using waste heat recovery," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 171(C), pages 1066-1076.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ding, L.C. & Akbarzadeh, A. & Tan, L., 2018. "A review of power generation with thermoelectric system and its alternative with solar ponds," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P1), pages 799-812.
    2. Twaha, Ssennoga & Zhu, Jie & Yan, Yuying & Li, Bo, 2016. "A comprehensive review of thermoelectric technology: Materials, applications, modelling and performance improvement," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 698-726.
    3. Zeb, K. & Ali, S.M. & Khan, B. & Mehmood, C.A. & Tareen, N. & Din, W. & Farid, U. & Haider, A., 2017. "A survey on waste heat recovery: Electric power generation and potential prospects within Pakistan," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1142-1155.
    4. Sajid, Muhammad & Hassan, Ibrahim & Rahman, Aziz, 2017. "An overview of cooling of thermoelectric devices," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 15-22.
    5. Chen, Wei-Hsin & Wu, Po-Hua & Lin, Yu-Li, 2018. "Performance optimization of thermoelectric generators designed by multi-objective genetic algorithm," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 209(C), pages 211-223.
    6. Liu, Yi-Hua & Chiu, Yi-Hsun & Huang, Jia-Wei & Wang, Shun-Chung, 2016. "A novel maximum power point tracker for thermoelectric generation system," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 306-318.
    7. Patil, Dipak S. & Arakerimath, Rachayya R. & Walke, Pramod V., 2018. "Thermoelectric materials and heat exchangers for power generation – A review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 1-22.
    8. Chen, Wei-Hsin & Chiou, Yi-Bin & Chein, Rei-Yu & Uan, Jun-Yen & Wang, Xiao-Dong, 2022. "Power generation of thermoelectric generator with plate fins for recovering low-temperature waste heat," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 306(PA).
    9. Shen, Rong & Gou, Xiaolong & Xu, Haoyu & Qiu, Kuanrong, 2017. "Dynamic performance analysis of a cascaded thermoelectric generator," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 203(C), pages 808-815.
    10. Zaher, M.H. & Abdelsalam, M.Y. & Cotton, J.S., 2020. "Study of the effects of axial conduction on the performance of thermoelectric generators integrated in a heat exchanger for waste heat recovery applications," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(C).
    11. Kim, Shiho, 2013. "Analysis and modeling of effective temperature differences and electrical parameters of thermoelectric generators," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 1458-1463.
    12. Massaguer, A. & Massaguer, E. & Comamala, M. & Pujol, T. & González, J.R. & Cardenas, M.D. & Carbonell, D. & Bueno, A.J., 2018. "A method to assess the fuel economy of automotive thermoelectric generators," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 222(C), pages 42-58.
    13. Meng, Jing-Hui & Wang, Xiao-Dong & Zhang, Xin-Xin, 2013. "Transient modeling and dynamic characteristics of thermoelectric cooler," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 340-348.
    14. Hsu, Cheng-Ting & Huang, Gia-Yeh & Chu, Hsu-Shen & Yu, Ben & Yao, Da-Jeng, 2011. "An effective Seebeck coefficient obtained by experimental results of a thermoelectric generator module," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(12), pages 5173-5179.
    15. He, Wei & Zhang, Gan & Zhang, Xingxing & Ji, Jie & Li, Guiqiang & Zhao, Xudong, 2015. "Recent development and application of thermoelectric generator and cooler," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 1-25.
    16. Lv, Hao & Wang, Xiao-Dong & Meng, Jing-Hui & Wang, Tian-Hu & Yan, Wei-Mon, 2016. "Enhancement of maximum temperature drop across thermoelectric cooler through two-stage design and transient supercooling effect," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 175(C), pages 285-292.
    17. Wang, Tongcai & Luan, Weiling & Wang, Wei & Tu, Shan-Tung, 2014. "Waste heat recovery through plate heat exchanger based thermoelectric generator system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 860-865.
    18. Siddique, Abu Raihan Mohammad & Mahmud, Shohel & Heyst, Bill Van, 2017. "A review of the state of the science on wearable thermoelectric power generators (TEGs) and their existing challenges," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 730-744.
    19. Vuarnoz, D. & Kitanovski, A. & Gonin, C. & Borgeaud, Y. & Delessert, M. & Meinen, M. & Egolf, P.W., 2012. "Quantitative feasibility study of magnetocaloric energy conversion utilizing industrial waste heat," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 229-237.
    20. He, Wei & Wang, Shixue & Lu, Chi & Zhang, Xing & Li, Yanzhe, 2016. "Influence of different cooling methods on thermoelectric performance of an engine exhaust gas waste heat recovery system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 1251-1258.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:183:y:2016:i:c:p:61-76. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405891/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.