An electro-thermal model of thermoelectric modules in heat pump and cooling mode (CHIM model)

Author

Chimchavee, W. ; Khedari, J. ; Hirunlabh, J.

Author_Institution

Building Sci. Res. Center, King Mongkut´´s Univ. of Technol., Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

461

Abstract

An electro-thermal model of thermoelectric (TE) modules, for the analysis of a heat pump system and cooling system under steady state is presented. The model is a combination of electro-thermal parts. Simulations were run by the PSPICE program. Its main advantage is simplicity as working points of the TE system i.e., current, thermal resistance of heat exchanger and the temperature difference between cold junction and hot junction of thermoelectric modules are easily determined. The CHIM model was checked by the two port method. Its output provides the same outcome as that conducted by a mathematical model that validated the proposed model

Keywords

SPICE; cooling; heat pumps; thermal analysis; thermal resistance; thermoelectric devices; CHIM model; PSPICE; computer simulation; cooling mode; electro-thermal model; heat pump; mathematical model; temperature difference; thermal resistance; thermoelectric modules; two port method; Cooling; Heat pumps; Mathematical model; Resistance heating; SPICE; Steady-state; Tellurium; Temperature; Thermal resistance; Thermoelectricity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermoelectrics, 2001. Proceedings ICT 2001. XX International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1094-2734

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7205-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICT.2001.979929

Filename

979929