Development and Analysis of Hybrid Thermoelectric Refrigerator Systems

Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology 2017

Saifizi, M.^1 ; Zakaria, M.S.^1 ; Yaacob, Sazali^2 ; Wan, Khairunizam^3

Faculty of Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Padang Besar, Perlis

02100, Malaysia^1

Malaysian Spanish Institute, University of Kuala Lumpur, Kedah, Kulim

09000, Malaysia^2

School of Mechatronic Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, Arau

02600, Malaysia^3

关键词: Pseudo-random binary sequences;    Real time data acquisition;    Sensor calibration;    Small temperature variation;    Thermoelectric heat pump;    Thermoelectric modules;    Thermoelectric refrigerators;    Varying temperature;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012036/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/318/1/012036

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Thermoelectric module (TEM) is a type of solid-state devices which has the capability to maintain the accuracy of small temperature variation application. In this study, a hybrid thermoelectric refrigerator system is introduced by utilizing TEMs; direct and air to air thermoelectric heat pump to cool down and maintain low temperature for vaccines storage. Two different materials which are aluminum and stainless steel are used as container in hybrid thermoelectric refrigerator (HTER) configuration to investigate the response of every system in transient and steady state mode. A proper temperature sensor calibration technique is implemented to make certain real time data acquisition of the systems are not affected very much from the noise generated. From step response analysis, it is indicated that HTER I (aluminum) has rapid settling time from transient to steady state than HTER II (stainless steel) since aluminum has better thermal conductivity as compared to stainless steel. It is found that HTER I is better in cooling capability with the same input current instead of HTER II which required a longer time to achieve steady state mode. Besides, in Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) response analysis injected to both systems shows HTER I is very sensitive to current input as the sequence length of HTER I is shorter than HTER II. However both systems depict the varying temperature in the range of 4 oC due to differences in thermal conductivity of container.