Lead Telluride-Based Thermoelectric Device Breaks Efficiency Record Barrier
Just like a savior knight, energy recovery comes to help the industries that pollute most and that waste large quantities of heat. A 14% efficiency has been reported for a newly-invented thermoelectric nanomaterial by the researchers of Northwestern University in Illinois. So far, efficiency values in this field didn't exceed 10%.
Osmoblue Thermoelectric Device Works at Lower Temperatures
Aside from energy efficiency, energy recovery could be the next best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Thermoelectric devices use waste heat to generate...
New Formula Speeds Up Development of Thermoelectric Materials
Identifying materials that have high potential for converting heat to electricity have just become much easier, as researchers from Houston University released a new...
Pierre Poudeu’s Thermoelectric Alloy Converts Heat 200% Better
A new thermoelectric material has emerged from a University of Michigan lab. Pierre Ferdinand P. Poudeu, assistant professor of material science and engineering, has developed a...
VW Equipping Future Cars With Heat Recovery Systems
The International Thermoelectric Society website reported that Volkswagen showed a prototype vehicle equipped with a thermoelectric generator, recovering the dissipated heat energy and converting it into electricity. The prototype has been shown at the "Thermoelektrik - Eine Chance Für Die Atomobillindustrie?" meeting held in Berlin in October 2008.
Novotech's System Generates Renewable Energy from Asphalt
Scientists at Novotech and two Massachusetts universities are working to create a new system that could channel heat from asphalt and other paving materials into clean and usable energy.
Thermopower Waves: MIT's Invention That Could Change Batteries and Devices Forever
Thermopower waves are a phenomenon that happens when powerful waves of energy shoot through carbon nanotube wires, creating electricity. The researchers from MIT are responsible for this discovery, thus opening a new area of rare energy research.
Practical Thermoelectric Power Possible with Newly Invented Material
Energy efficiency, that is, the amount of usable energy in a given fuel, is based off a number of factors. Hydrocarbon fuels, for example,...
Silicon Nanomesh Designed by Caltech Serves As Almost-Perfect Heat Insulator
All of the electronics devices you use, all the wires, the cars, basically anything using energy heats up and loses part of its useful energy as heat - wasted heat, through well-cooled radiators. Thermoelectric devices have recently suffered technological advances and are now more able to harness the lost heat energy and transform it into electricity. A new material made out of silicon can serve as the ultimate heat insulator and still conduct electricity.
Organic Thermoelectric Conversion Material to Be Used in Human Health Monitoring Devices
Using an organic polymer, Fujifilm Corp developed an organic thermoelectric conversion material and claims the material demonstrates the highest thermoelectric conversion efficiency in the...
