Soleimani, Z., Zoras, S., Cui, Y. et al. (2 more authors) (2020) Design of heat sinks for wearable thermoelectric generators to power personal heating garments: A numerical study. In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Sustainability in the built environment for climate change mitigation: SBE19, 23-25 Oct 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. IOP Publishing
Abstract
To mitigate climate change attributed to the built environments, there have been tremendous efforts to improve air conditioning systems in the buildings. The possibility of harvesting body heat as a renewable energy source to power a wearable personal heating system is investigated. The aim of this study is to integrate a wearable personal heating system with a thermoelectric generator (TEG) that harvests the body heat which is used to convert it into electricity. Moreover, the interaction between the TEG configuration and power output is studied. The power generation of TEG system is obtained by COMSOL Multiphysics software. The simulation results concluded that all the four proposed heat sink configurations can improve the power output of the wearable TEG at 1.4 m/s and 3m/s compared to that of the reference model. Furthermore, the perforated and trapezium shapes of heat sinks have a significantly better performance in comparison to conventional heat sinks.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2020 12:12 |
Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2020 12:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1755-1315/410/1/012096 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158262 |
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