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This article has been written by Paul HEROIN (webmaster) for his TIPE (for the end of french prepa schools)
Thanks to indicate me english faults ;)
Thermoelectric Generation
and
Sustainable Developpment.  
Question :How this domain, which has been discovered 180 years ago, has moved and in which part can it participate to sustainable developpment?
Introduction : Thermoelectricity is the phenomenon of conversion of heat to electricity or the contrary. This phenomenon has been discovered in 1821 by Thomas Johann Seebeck. But Thermoelectricity has long been neglected for two main reasons. First, the lack of theorics explanations until 1949 when the modern theory has been proposed. The second reason is the smallness of the outputs : this energy source made no concurence to the others one. However recents progress has been made in the research of high performance materials, especially semiductors, let designer imagine efficient inductrial applications. We will study here only the generation aspect of thermoelectricity, its evolution in order to make it an efficient source of energy, and finaly its current and future applications and the role it could play in the sustainable developpment.
Adopted plan :
I)The Seebeck Effect
- 1)Experiment
- 2)Formulation
II Figure of Merite and output
- 1)Importance of the figure of merite, its parameters.
- 2)serial couples
- 3)Segmentation
- 4)cascaded thermocouples
III Applications
Bibliographie-Webographie :
Ingéniérie des matériaux et microgénérateurs thermoelectriques. Alexandre Jacquot
CRC handbook of Thermoelectrics. D.M. ROWE
Thermoelectric Refrigeration. H.J. Goldsmid
Thermodynamique, fondements et applications : J-P.Perez
http://faq.bigip.mine.nu:8008/dom/Thermocouples.pdf
http://www.iut-lannion.fr/LEMEN/MPDOC/CMMEST/mtherthr.htm
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-8497205315/unrestricted/chap2.pdf
http://www.serras.net/thermofr/index.asp
http://automatique.free.fr/applications.html
http://www.serras.net
http://www.peltier-info.com/
Personnal resarchs had been completed by the meet of Pr. Hubert SCHERRER, researcher at the LPM (laboratoire de physique des matériaux) in l'école des Mines de Nancy. I personnaly thank him for the time he gave me and documents that he gave or borrow me.
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