Abstract
Air-cooled finned heatsink (FHS) are more compact than water-cooled heatsink due to no water channel, which is beneficial to simplify the structure of the cooling side of the thermoelectric generator (TEG) system. Therefore, a mini channel finned heatsink (MCFHS) was designed in this study based on Venturi effect. In this study, the mathematical model of TEG with MCFHS and FHS were developed and verified. The effects of the heating temperature and air flow velocity around the heatsinks on the TEG performance were analyzed and demonstrated. The TEG performance was investigated in terms of the temperatures of the two sides of the TEG, the TEG voltage, and the TEG efficiency. The results revealed that the smaller thermal resistance of heatsink is favorable for greater output of TEG. And the use of the MCFHS can effectively improve the performance of the TEG under different conditions. The maximum TEG efficiency with MCFHS could be 155% higher than the TEG with FHS.
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