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Effective use of thermal energy at both hot and cold side of thermoelectric module for developing efficient thermoelectric water distillation system

Al-Madhhachi, Hayder ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9440-9015 and Gao, Min ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9591-5825 2017. Effective use of thermal energy at both hot and cold side of thermoelectric module for developing efficient thermoelectric water distillation system. Energy Conversion and Management 133 , pp. 14-19. 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.11.055

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Abstract

An efficient thermoelectric distillation system has been designed and constructed for production of drinkable water. The unique design of this system is to use the heat from hot side of the thermoelectric module for water evaporation and the cold side for vapour condensation simultaneously. This novel design significantly reduces energy consumption and improves the system performance. The results of experiments show that the average water production is 28.5 mL/h with a specific energy consumption of 0.00114 kW h/mL in an evaporation chamber filled with 10 × 10 × 30 mm3 of water. This is significantly lower than the energy consumption required by other existing thermoelectric distillation systems. The results also show that a maximum temperature difference between the hot and cold side of the thermoelectric module is 42.3 °C, which led to temperature increases of 26.4 °C and 8.4 °C in water and vapour, respectively.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0196-8904
Date of Acceptance: 24 November 2016
Last Modified: 02 Nov 2022 09:57
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/96935

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