Paper Info
Title
Geometric optimisation of thermo-electric coolers using simulated annealing.
Abstract
The field of thermo-electric coolers TEC has grown drastically in recent years. In an extreme environment such as thermal energy and gas drilling operations, TEC is an effective cooling mechanism for instruments. Nevertheless, limitations such as the relatively low energy conversion efficiency and ability to dissipate only a limited amount of heat flux may seriously damage the lifetime and performance of the instrument. Many researches were conducted to expand the efficiency of TEC. The material parameters are the most significant, but they are restricted by currently available materials and module fabricating technologies. Therefore, the main objective of finding the optimal TEC design is to define a set of design parameters. In this paper, technical issues of TEC were discussed. After that, a new method of optimising the dimension of TEC using simulated annealing SA, to maximise the cooling rate was proposed. Equality constraint and inequality constraint were taken into consideration. This work reveals that SA performs better than genetic algorithm in terms of stability and reliability and found a better geometric design of single-stage TEC which maximise cooling rate when compared with Cheng's 2005 work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1504/IJCSE.2017.10005025
IJCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
single-stage thermo-electric cooler, simulated annealing, optimisation, geometric design, coefficient of performance
Simulated annealing,Coefficient of performance,Process engineering,Energy conversion efficiency,Thermal energy,Heat flux,Computer science,Real-time computing,Geometric design,TEC,Genetic algorithm
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
3
1742-7185
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Doan Vi Kim Khanh100.34
Pandian M. Vasant227927.82
I. Elamvazuthi314516.99
Dieu N. Vo442.45