Electrical Energy Harvesting from Cooker’s Wasted Heat with Using Conduction Cooling

School of Engineering, Taylor’s University, 47500, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

^* Corresponding author: Ghafour.AmouzadMahdiraji@taylors.edu.my

Abstract

In order meet the demand of electricity in current era, the need for new sources of energy even in very minimal amount, could be done with proper research and technology advancement in order to convert as much wasted energy as possible. Collecting and analyses cooker’s wasted heat as a main wasted energy source become the main interest for this research. This application can be installed either in household usage or commercial usage. Based on majority stove in household datasheet it shown that the efficiency of the stove is approximately 50%. With half of the efficiency turn into wasted heat, this application is suitable for thermoelectric generator (TEG) to harvest the heat. The objective of this research is to determine whether the thermoelectric generator (TEG) would able to power the 3V LED light as a small lighting system in household. Several designs with five TEGs in series circuit are tested to the application to analyses which method generated a better result. Since this research only focus in using a conduction cooling, aluminum heat sink will be utilized either for heat absorption or heat rejection. The maximum temperature differences between hot side and cold side is 209.83 °C with average power approximately 0.1 W.