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Utilizing Thermal Waste Energy
Jason Chiu
Need1990 1996 1990-96
Sector MTCE MTCE MTCE Increase Increase
Residential 556,441
697,861
141,420 25%
Commercial 368,972 482,846
113,874 31%
Industrial 152,399 190,948
38,549 25%
Transportation 1,020,868 1,071,085 50,217 5%
Electric Utility 120,829 1,430,669 1,309,840 1084%
Total 2,219,509
3,873,409 1,653,900 75%
Generated by Brown University
Thermoelectric Devices
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Seebeck Effect
• Seebeck effect
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Peltier Effect
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Knowledge Base
• Terry Tritt, 2007• 60% wasted• Low efficiency still
saves a lot
Formula for TE figure of merit
Literature Review
• Tritt and Subramanian, 2006
• Current uses of TE materials
Literature Review
• Bottner et al 2006• Used thin film super
lattice thermoelectric materials
Literature Review
• Dresselhaus et al, 2007• Low-dimensional thermoelectric materials
Literature Review
• Yang and Caillat, 2006• TE materials for space use
Do-Ability
• Thermoelectric devices are not very expensive
• Various sources of energy can be used such as sunlight or anything that emits heat
Bibliography• Bottner, Harald, Gang Chen, and Rama Venkatasubramanian. "Aspects of Thin-
Film Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials, Devices, and Applications." MRS Bulletin 31 (2006): 211-17.
• Brown University Center for Environmental Studies. "Fossil Fuels." Brown University. <http://www.brown.edu/Research/EnvStudies_Theses/GHG/Sections/Fossil_Fuel.htm>.
• Dresselhaus, Mildred S., Gang Chen, Ming Y. Tang, Ronggui Yang, Hohyun Lee, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, and Pawan Gogna. "New Directions for Low-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials." Advanced Materials 19 (2007): 1-12.
• "History." Thermoelectrics. Caltech. <http://www.thermoelectrics.caltech.edu/history_page.htm>.
• "Seebeck." Chemistry. Institute of Chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. <http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/seebeck.html>.
• Tritt, Terry M., and M.A. Subramanian. "Thermoelectric Materials, Phenomena, and Applications: A Bird's Eye View." MRS Bulletin 31 (2006): 188-98.
• Tritt, Terry M., Harald Bottner, and Lidong Chen. "Thermoelectrics: Direct Solar Thermal Energy Conversion." MRS Bulletin 33 (38): 366-68.
• Yang, Jihui, and Thierry Caillat. "Thermoelectric Materials for Space and Automative Power Generation." MRS Bulletin 31 (2006): 224-29.