SEMINAR

PRESENTATION 2
A model for thermoelectric generator applied to
vehicle waste heat
recovery
Aditya Narain
M180059ME
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INTRODUCTION-

The thermal simulation is done on heat exchanger to check

the surface temperature, heat transfer rate in three different
driving cycles (urban driving, suburban driving and max.
power driving) for a vehicle with 1.2 L petrol engine.
The Rectangular shaped heat exchanger is used in exhaust
manifold of internal combustion engine (ICE) is modeled
numerically to recover the lost heat from engine exhaust.

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Dimensions of Exhaust Heat Exchanger
The Exhaust heat exchanger is designed on the basis of a research paper design
data. The heat exchanger has been modified by giving gradual increasing cross
sectional area.

S.NO. SPECIFICATIONS DIMENSIONS (mm)

1. Length 300 mm
2. Thickness 5 mm
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3. Inlet Area
110 x 110 mm
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4. Outlet Area
165 x 165 mm
5. Manifold Inlet Diameter 80 mm
6. Manifold Outlet Diameter 80 mm

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Fig 1- Three Dimensional View of duct
Fig 2 -Meshing of duct

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Fig 3 -Temperature Contours On Duct

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Fig 4 -streamline
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Fig 5-Velocity Gradient 8
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Calculations-

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 RESULT

Mass flow rate Inlet Inlet Hot side Cold side TEG Total Current Power
Temp. Pressure surface Temp Voltage voltage
Temp by 10 TEG
(g/s) module I
(KPa) Th Tc V (A)
(K) (K) (K) V (Volts) P=VI
(Volts) Watt
5.7 g/s 573 K 300 KPa 459K 303K 0.0447Volt 0.447 V 0.25 Amp 0.1117wat
s t

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 Conclusion
• The temperature contours shows that the surface
temperature attained in rectangular shaped exhaust heat
exchanger with gradually increasing cross sectional area is
uniform and better. The optimized rectangular exhaust heat
exchanger design gives mean surface temperature of 459K .
• From the velocity contour it is very clear that in rectangular
shaped TEG the exhaust is distributed uniformly over the
profile. The heat transfer rate has been increased as shown by
wall heat flux contours. The calculated power generated by
TEG module is 0.117 watt. Therefore, it led to the conclusion
that rectangular shaped exhaust exchanger could be used for
thermoelectric power generation.
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 References
• Shengqiang Bai, HongliangLuet al., Numerical and
experimental analysis for exhaust heat exchangers in
automobile thermoelectric generators. , 2014.
• G. Murli , G. Vikram.“A study on performance
enhancement of heat exchanger in thermoelectric
generator using CFD”. [2016] pp.(128-133) ISSN
2349-6010

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