Seebeck effect, Peltier effect and Thomson effect found the basis of thermoelectric theory of thermoelectric coolers (TEC) . In the view of the history of TEC (picture below), it has roughly gone through three stages of development. Physical picture of TEC The first stage refers to thermoelectric generation and thermoelectric cooling studied by Seebeck and Peltier respectively. Because of bad thermoelectric performances of metallic materials at that time, the efficiency of energy conversion was ...(more)
With the development of science and technology, TEC has attracted more and more attention and it has been widely used in our life. Now the following is about the application of TEC in home appliances. Physical picture of TEC 1. Refrigerator A lot of manufacturers have launched TEC refrigerator. For example, car refrigerator is also a kind of refrigerator, which is suitable for drive out use. On the current market, the size of this car refrigerator is from 3L to 33L. With the increase of car owne...(more)
Thermoelectric materials have three effects: Seeback effect, Peliter effect and Thomson effect. Thermoelectric material has many advantages: (1) It has compact size, light weight and no noise in work; (2) The temperature can be controlled within 0.1℃;(3)There is no CFC used in the thermoelectric material, which can pollute the environment; (4) As heat source can be recycled and transformed into electric energy (save energy), it has long service life and is easy to control. Therefore, thermoelec...(more)
LED is a kind of solid semiconductor lighting devices. Similar with traditional light source, during work, the solid light source will generate heat because of current flowing in the diodes. As long as the current flows continuously, the heat will continue to be produced. The node temperature of LED must be below 125℃. The high node temperature will bring many adverse effects, such as the quantum efficiency of LED reducing, the luminousefficiency declining, the peak wavelength shifting and ser...(more)
As shown figure 1, the heat flow _0 goes through the bottom of heat sink and then goes into its root. In the root, the heat flow will be divided into two shares _1and_2, and then through the root and environment air, start convection and heat exchange. Finally, the heat flow goes into the environment by heat exchange with fins. The heat resistance network model is shown in figure 1. Fig 1. The heat flow schematic diagram of heat sink dissipation Fig 2. The heat resistance network model of fins A...(more)
Thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is built on the Peltier effect. Due to the internal structure features of semiconductor material, it has more obvious thermoelectric effects than other metals do. Therefore, semiconductor material is usually used for making TEC . The cooling capacity of a pair of couple, which consists of P-type and N-type semiconductor, is fairly small. For example, the cooling capacity of the couple (6mm 7mm) is only 0.92~1.16W. In order to obtain more cooling capacity, many pairs o...(more)
(c) Use proper pre tin in the soldering area of the surface of the heat sink . Thus, the melting point of the solder shall be lower or equal to the maximum operating temperature of the thermoelectric cooler. When plating tin on the heat sink, we shall keep the temperature of the heat sink in a proper temperature, which could melt the solder but not exceed the maximum operating temperature of the TEC . (d) Cover the solder flux on the hot end of the TEC, and then place the TEC on the pre tin area...(more)
When proper measures have been adopted to protect the TEC s from being overheated, we can solder the TEC with metalized surface to thermoelectric components. In order to prevent the TEC from excessive mechanical force, solder one surface (usually hot end) to a component with rigid structure. Its worth noted that when we solder the TEC to a rigid structure component, other components or small circuits shall be soldered in the cold end of the TEC, which will not connect to the external structure r...(more)
