Title :
Thermal performance of a thermoelectric air-cooling system with heat sinks
Author :
Karng, Sarng Woo ; Shin, Jae-Hoon ; Han, Hun Sik ; Kim, Yun Ho ; Kim, Seo Young
Author_Institution :
Energy Mech. Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
Thermal performance of a louver-fin and a plate-fin in a thermoelectric cooling system with a duct-flow type fan arrangement is analytically evaluated. The thermoelectric cooling system consists of a thermoelectric module and two heat exchanger fins. The analytic results show that the optimized louver fin has lower thermal resistance than plate fin. The COP and heat absorbed rate of the thermoelectric cooling system with optimized louver fins are about 10% and 6% higher than optimized plate fins, respectively.
Keywords :
cooling; heat sinks; duct-flow type fan arrangement; heat exchanger fins; heat sinks; louver-fin; plate-fin; thermal performance; thermal resistance; thermoelectric air-cooling system; thermoelectric cooling system; thermoelectric module; Cooling; Heat sinks; Heat transfer; Resistance heating; Surface resistance; Temperature dependence; Thermal conductivity; Thermal factors; Thermal resistance; Thermoelectricity; Coefficient of performance (COP); Louver fin; Plate fin; Thermal resistance; Thermoelectric module (TEM);
Conference_Titel :
Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 2010 12th IEEE Intersociety Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5342-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1087-9870
DOI :
10.1109/ITHERM.2010.5501392
