Design and Fabrication of Thermoelectric Refrigerator for Liquid Cooling by Automatic Temperature Micro-Controller

Author(s):

Darshan Rajendra Suryawanshi , Sinhgad Institute of Technology & Science, Narhe; Vaibhav Dattatraya Pokale, Sinhgad Institute of Technology & Science, Narhe; Nikhil Vishwanath Pokharkar, Sinhgad Institute of Technology & Science, Narhe; Akshay Pandit Walgude, Sinhgad Institute of Technology & Science, Narhe; Prashant P. Patunkar, Sinhgad Institute of Technology & Science, Narhe

Keywords:

Thermoelectric refrigeration, Seebeck effect, Peltier effect, COP, Peltier module, Experimental Setup

Abstract:

Refrigeration is defined as science of reducing temperature of object and maintains the temperature below the atmosphere. In 1834, Jean Peltier while investigating Seebeck effect, found that direct current can produce refrigeration effect when it is passed through pair of two dissimilar metals was further known as Peltier effect and then thermoelectric refrigeration started evolving and till now it has covered wide range of a applications. Thermoelectric refrigeration systems are compact, reliable, noiseless, flexible and environment friendly. Due low COP and requirement of DC supply it is restricted to small capacity system. Thermoelectric refrigeration setup is fabricated and tested for load and no load condition. For no load condition this system took 4 minute to reduce the temperature by 110C. For load condition it took 21 minutes to reduce the temperature by 80C. These results are produced on fabricated thermoelectric refrigeration system with 4 Peltier modules. Theoretical COP of the thermoelectric refrigeration system was found to be 0.548 while actual COP was 0.1939 for no load conditions and 0.03002 for load conditions.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV3I1002
Published in	:	Volume : 3, Issue : 1
Publication Date	:	01/08/2016
Page(s)	:	21-27

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