TY - JOUR
T1 - Feasibility study on the use of a solar thermoelectric cogenerator comprising a thermoelectric module and evacuated tubular collector with parabolic trough concentrator
AU - Miao, L.
AU - Zhang, M.
AU - Tanemura, S.
AU - Tanaka, T.
AU - Kang, Y. P.
AU - Xu, G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, Grant No. 915100700 6000009; Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Grant No. 2011B010100043 and Chinese Academy of Sciences: Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Natural Gas Hydrate Foundation, Grant No. y107j3.
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - We have designed a new solar thermoelectric cogeneration system consisting of an evacuated tubular solar collector (ETSC) with a parabolic trough concentrator (PTC) and thermoelectric modules (TEMs) to supply both thermal energy and electricity. The main design concepts are (1) the hot side of the TEM is bonded to the solar selective absorber installed in an evacuated glass tube, (2) the cold side of the TEM is also bonded to the heat sink, and (3) the outer circulated water is heated by residual solar energy after TEM generation. We present an example solar thermal simulation based on energy balance and heat transfer as used in solar engineering to predict the electrical conversion efficiency and solar thermal conversion efficiency for different values of parameters such as the solar insolation, concentration ratio, and TEM ZT values.
AB - We have designed a new solar thermoelectric cogeneration system consisting of an evacuated tubular solar collector (ETSC) with a parabolic trough concentrator (PTC) and thermoelectric modules (TEMs) to supply both thermal energy and electricity. The main design concepts are (1) the hot side of the TEM is bonded to the solar selective absorber installed in an evacuated glass tube, (2) the cold side of the TEM is also bonded to the heat sink, and (3) the outer circulated water is heated by residual solar energy after TEM generation. We present an example solar thermal simulation based on energy balance and heat transfer as used in solar engineering to predict the electrical conversion efficiency and solar thermal conversion efficiency for different values of parameters such as the solar insolation, concentration ratio, and TEM ZT values.
KW - Thermoelectric conversion
KW - evacuated tubular solar collector (ETSC)
KW - parabolic trough concentrator (PTC)
KW - solar cogeneration
KW - solar thermoelectric generator
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U2 - 10.1007/s11664-012-2076-8
DO - 10.1007/s11664-012-2076-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862222747
VL - 41
SP - 1759
EP - 1765
JO - Journal of Electronic Materials
JF - Journal of Electronic Materials
SN - 0361-5235
IS - 6
ER -