Output details
15 - General Engineering
Staffordshire University
Article title
Thermoelectric cooling of microelectronic circuits and waste heat electrical power generation in a desktop personal computer
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Materials Science and Engineering B
Article number
-
Volume number
176
Issue number
4
First page of article
316
ISSN of journal
0921-5107
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
Integrated circuits, such as microprocessors of PCs produce waste heat, this research was targeting the question can this waste heat be used to generate useful electrical power. In the UK alone there are c 54million PCs in use; recovering just 1W of waste energy would contribute 54MW to the UK energy demand. The work was supported by European Thermodynamics, UK. The outputs from this research present novel uses of thermoelectric devices for cooling local Integrated Circuits (ICs) to recover this waste heat.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
