Cover Picture: Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials (Bi0.4Sb1.6Te3/Bi1.75Te3.25) and Integration into Window Glasses for Thermoelectricity Generation (Energy Technol. 3/2014)
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Thermoelectric windows: A thermoelectric generator is embedded into a window glass that can generate 300 Watts of power at a temperature difference of 20 °C, achieving a new breakthrough in green building technology, as described in the Full Paper by Prof. Muhammad M. Hussain and colleagues at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on page 292. Forty percent of global energy consumption is related to room heating and cooling. Therefore, thermoelectric generators integrated into building materials can generate thermoelectricity based upon the temperature difference between the outside temperature and inside building temperature. One major challenge is to have a thermopile that is thick enough (at the least 5 mm in alignment with standard glass thickness). The micrometer-sized thermoelectric powders were therefore ball milled into nanostrucutured materials and then hot pressed into a mold to form 5 mm thermopiles before inserting into the window glass to make themorelectric windows.
Source: Energy Technology
Institution: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2078609253