Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: In the present world, refrigeration systems produce cooling effect using refrigerants and release harmful hydro fluorocarbons into environment.Using such refrigerants higher output can be achieved but one of the major disadvantages is harmful gas emission and global warming.Such problems are not present in thermoelectric modules and do not pollute the environment.This work deals with the design of a thermoelectric refrigerator with an effort to improve performance by designing patterned air flow management system.A thermoelectric refrigerator prototype has been built and performance analysis has been carried out in controlled ambient condition (25 o C).A sheet metal enclosure with vents for creating patterned air flow is designed in solid works and fabricated.The proposed refrigerator with patterned air flow arrangement could achieve up to 5 o C refrigeration temperature inside the cabinet.The comparative study revealed reduction of power consumption by 6.31% due to the changes made in the air flow pattern.CFD Analysis has been performed to validate the experimental results.
Author: Rakesh Sharma V .
Institution: Vardhaman College of Engineering
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2580694868