Numerical simulation of a thermoelectric generator module for road vehicles EVALUATED

Detalhes: Almost every industry sector in Europe is facing the impose of strict rules regarding energy savings in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The regulations, encourage industries to constantly look for improvements. Now, the automotive industry is looking for a every possible manner of upgrade allowing to improve cars efficiency. One of the possible solution is to install thermoelectric generators to reuse the waste heat released with fumes. To investigate whether TEGs implementation could be a good manner to improve the efficiency there is a need to mathematically model the device in order to check its performance. The presented thesis focus on elaboration of benchmark procedure for thermoelectric numerical modelling in ANSYS Workbench using Thermal-Electric module. In the introductory part of the thesis one can find the literature survey in the topic of TEGs modelling, the physical fundamentals of thermoelectric along with modelling procedure explained. Then the mathematical model implementation in ANSYS is described. The following part contains the results description and analysis. In the last chapter the final conclusions and future plans are presented.

Discussão: janeiro 19, 2021, 13:0

Publicação

Obra sujeita a Direitos de Autor

Orientação

AUTOR

Piotr Franciszek Raczkowski (ist195461)

ORIENTADOR

Pedro Jorge Martins Coelho

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica (DEM)

Professor Catedrático