INVESTIGATION OF WASTE HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS USING THERMO-ELECTRIC GENERATORS AND SIMULATIONS FOR USED AUTOMOBILE RADIATORS

Abstract

Providing good and best solutions to everyday problems varies day by day with the evolving technologies. The solution pertaining to the problems associated with the exhaust gases from the automobile or other such equipments revolves around only on the ways of reducing the pollution. Many designs and developments are also made in terms of alternative energies at low cost. One such ideology is to recover and reuse the energy that is exhibited out in the form of liquid or heat. Waste heat recovery will be a new energy source. Thermal fluid flow heat recovery system from Automobile radiator with internal and external tubes is one such option .While most of the state of art papers considers only the waste heat as energy source, this thesis discusses the usage of phase changing materials in the external fluid flow tubes in heating and cooling paths. Both the static and dynamic nature of the energy is used in the work. Design and development of heat energy recovery system from the air cooled radiator is made. The system is very challenging and it plays a major role in the works where the heat energy is recovered as electrical energy which paves way for an additional usage of TEG. Key Words: Thermoelectric generator,radiator,phase change material, energy conservation