Potential for Usage of Thermoelectric Generators on Ships

Kristiansen, Nils Randulf; Nielsen, Henrik Kofoed

doi:10.1007/s11664-010-1189-1

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“…However, for small ships and other waste heat sources, Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs) represents a promising solution direction. N.R Kristiansen et al [11] analyzed the waste heat sources on a median size bulker ship equipping a main engine of 7.8 MW Conceptual Design and Performance Analysis of an Exhaust Gas Waste Heat Recovery System for a 10000TEU Container Ship and found that incinerators were most promising application for TEGs. Moreover, important factors for successful TEGs applications were commercialization of materials research and reduced price/Watt power output TEGs can bring [12].…”

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Conceptual Design and Performance Analysis of an Exhaust Gas Waste Heat Recovery System for a 10000TEU Container Ship

Yang

Guo

2012

Polish Maritime Research

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Conceptual Design and Performance Analysis of an Exhaust Gas Waste Heat Recovery System for a 10000TEU Container Ship

Yang

Guo

2012

Polish Maritime Research

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“…In spite of a preliminary study regarding the application of TEG in on-ship incinerators in which potential benefits were conceptually estimated, 3) more technical examinations on the realistic combination of TEG and marine power plants have not been reported. Since many advanced thermoelectric materials and cascaded devices are becoming available for high temperature range, a pilot study of the applicability of thermoelectric generation to the boiler section of marine steam turbines (among a great many other options), in particular the first application possibility mentioned above, is presented in this paper through the CFD modeling approach.…”

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Computational Simulation of Thermoelectric Generators in Marine Power Plants

2011

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In thermoelectric generation applications, the two indispensable conditions are the hot source and the cold source to provide the temperature difference for the generator. Thus, the waste heat recovery from various high temperature gas or steam turbines on ships by thermoelectric generators (TEG) is promising because the ocean naturally plays a role as an infinitely large cold source. Among other options, a pilot study of the applicability of thermoelectric generation to the boiler section of marine power plants is presented through CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modeling. It is found that more than 600 W power may be produced from the waste heat of a 300 kW boiler but without an obvious loss of the system safety.

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“…Board incinerators are used for burning the onboard waste instead to be thrown overboard to pollute the sea water. The incinerators are the most favourable TEG systems due to the availability of their high-temperature differences [101,102].…”

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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting: Basic Principles and Applications

Enescu¹

2019

Green Energy Advances

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Green energy harvesting aims to supply electricity to electric or electronic systems from one or different energy sources present in the environment without grid connection or utilisation of batteries. These energy sources are solar (photovoltaic), movements (kinetic), radio-frequencies and thermal energy (thermoelectricity). The thermoelectric energy harvesting technology exploits the Seebeck effect. This effect describes the conversion of temperature gradient into electric power at the junctions of the thermoelectric elements of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) device. This device is a robust and highly reliable energy converter, which aims to generate electricity in applications in which the heat would be otherwise dissipated. The significant request for thermoelectric energy harvesting is justified by developing new thermoelectric materials and the design of new TEG devices. Moreover, the thermoelectric energy harvesting devices are used for waste heat harvesting in microscale applications. Potential TEG applications as energy harvesting modules are used in medical devices, sensors, buildings and consumer electronics. This chapter presents an overview of the fundamental principles of thermoelectric energy harvesting and their low-power applications.

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Potential for Usage of Thermoelectric Generators on Ships

Cited by 41 publications

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Conceptual Design and Performance Analysis of an Exhaust Gas Waste Heat Recovery System for a 10000TEU Container Ship

Conceptual Design and Performance Analysis of an Exhaust Gas Waste Heat Recovery System for a 10000TEU Container Ship

Computational Simulation of Thermoelectric Generators in Marine Power Plants

Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting: Basic Principles and Applications

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