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Sustainability of large scale waste heat harvesting using thermoelectric | | Anilkumar Bohra
; Satish Vitta
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1 Aug 2022 | | Abstract: | The amount of waste heat exergy generated globally is 69.058 EJ which can be
divided into, low temperature 373 K, 30.496 EJ, medium temperature 373 K to 573
K, 14.431 EJ and high temperature 573 K, 24.131 EJ. These values of exergy have
been used to determine the minimum number of pn junctions required to convert
the exergy into electrical power. It is found that the number of junctions
required to convert high temperature exergy increases from 8.22x10^11 to
24.66x10^11 when the aspect ratio of the legs increases from 0.5 cm^1 to 1.5
cm^1. To convert the low temperature exergy, 81.76x10^11 to 245.25x10^11
junctions will be required depending on the legs aspect ratio. The quantity of
alloys containing elements such as Pb, Bi, Te, Sb, Se and Sn required to
synthesize these junctions therefore is of the order of millions of tons which
means the elements required is also of similar magnitude. The current world
production of these elements however falls far short of this requirement,
indicating significant supply chain risk. The production of these elements,
even if resources are available, will emit millions of tons of CO2 showing that
current alloys are non-sustainable for waste heat recovery. | | Source: | arXiv, 2208.00616 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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