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An Experimental Study Of Mechanical Engineering Essay

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Automotive Thermoelectric Generators
Shubham Kusalkar , Sameer Agrawal Department of Mechanical Engineering, SKNCOE,Sinhgad Institute,Pune skusalkar1@gmail.com Department of Mechanical Engineering, SKNCOE,Sinhgad Institute,Pune Sameeragrawal2011@gmail.com

Abstract
Automobiles works on the fuel in which chemical energy is stored. This chemical energy is converted in mechanical energy by combustion of fuel in engine of cars. But most of energy is wasted in the exhaust of the automobile hence the efficiency of the vehicle also decreases. By using this major amount of exhaust energy we can improve the efficiency of vehicle. Experimental study states that 35% of total heat is wasted in exhaust. Therefore an attempt is made to use this waste for production of electrical energy to charge the battery used in automobiles that is the unavailable energy is used to convert into usable energy. This leads to increase the overall efficiency of engine. Hence an experimental set-up of Thermo-Electric Generator (TEG) consisting thermo-electric modules is designed to convert this thermal energy to electrical energy. With help of temperature difference and TEG’s electrical energy is produced by accounting working principle of Seebeck and petlier effect.

Keywords
Exhaust energy recovery,
Waste heat,
Thermoelectric

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