Title :
Effect of heat pipes to suppress heat leakage for thermoelectric generator of energy harvesting
Author :
Ishiyama, Tomoaki ; Yamada, Hiroyoshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Kushiro Nat. Coll. of Technol., Kushiro, Japan
Abstract :
Effect of heat pipes is described for suppressing heat leakage of the thermoelectric generator, which is used as the power source of energy harvesting. The experimental results show that the heat pipes are effective in suppressing heat leakage even if the temperature difference was small. By increasing the number of heat pipes, the output of thermoelectric generation was stable during the experiment.
Keywords :
energy harvesting; heat pipes; thermoelectric conversion; energy harvesting; heat leakage suppression; heat pipe effect; power source; temperature difference; thermoelectric generator; Energy harvesting; Generators; Heat sinks; Heat transfer; Heating; Power generation; Temperature; Energy harvesting; Seebeck effect; heat pipe; thermoelectric generator;
Conference_Titel :
Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nagasaki
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2328-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2329-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477306
