Alegría Cía, Patricia
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Publication Open Access Experimental development of a novel thermoelectric generator without moving parts to harness shallow hot dry rock fields(2021) Alegría Cía, Patricia; Rodríguez García, Antonio; Catalán Ros, Leyre; Astrain Ulibarrena, David; Araiz Vega, Miguel; Ingeniería; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; IngeniaritzaNowadays, geothermal energy in shallow hot dry rocks is not exploited enough due to the high economic and environmental impact as well as the lack of scalability of the existing technologies. Here, thermoelectricity has a great future potential due to its robustness, absence of moving parts and modularity. With this research, the feasibility of a novel and robust geothermal thermoelectric generator whose working principle is phase change has been experimentally demonstrated, as well as the importance of compactness to maximize its efficiency and thus, power generation.Publication Open Access Experimental development of a novel thermoelectric generator without moving parts to harness shallow hot dry rock fields(Elsevier, 2022) Alegría Cía, Patricia; Catalán Ros, Leyre; Araiz Vega, Miguel; Rodríguez García, Antonio; Astrain Ulibarrena, David; Ingeniaritza; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; IngenieríaNowadays, geothermal energy in shallow hot dry rock fields is not exploited enough due to the high economic and environmental impact as well as the lack of scalability of the existing technologies. Here, thermoelectricity has a great future potential due to its robustness, absence of moving parts and modularity. However, the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator depends highly on the heat exchangers. In this work, a novel geothermal thermoelectric generator is experimentally developed, characterizing different configurations of biphasic heat exchangers to obtain low thermal resistances that allow the maximum efficiency in the thermoelectric modules. As a result, robust and passive heat exchangers were obtained with thermal resistances of 0.07 K/W and 0.4 K/W in the hot and cold sides, respectively. The geothermal thermoelectric generator was built with the most effective heat exchangers and was experimented under different temperature and convection conditions, generating 36 W (17 W by a prototype with 10 modules and 19 W by a prototype with 6 modules) for a temperature difference of 160 °C between the heat source and the environment. Furthermore, the experimental development showed that it is possible to increase electricity generation with a more compact generator, since a decrease in the number of modules from 10 to 6 increases the efficiency from 3.72% to 4.06%. With this research, the feasibility of a novel and robust geothermal thermoelectric generator whose working principle is phase change has been experimentally demonstrated, as well as the importance of compactness to maximize its efficiency and thus, power generation.