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What Are Peltier Modules Provide Voltages Using Nothing?

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Peltier Modules provide voltages using nothing but the heat emitted from various sources such as wood burning, candle flames, latent heat from industries, or the heat produced from the residential areas while cooking. The temperature difference created between the hot side and the cold side generates electricity. It can be highly useful in forest and mountain areas as well as in homes in case of power outages and in this situations we can use candle flames or wood as heating source for hot side and chilled water or ice as cooling source for the cold side also we can use heat sink on the cold side to increase and improve the speed of process.

The core of the device is a significant number of Peltier modules and for general needs around ten
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The regulator happens to be mounted far from the sources of heating and cooling so that it can be protected from heating and shorting.

FIG 3: BLOCK DIAGRAM OF PMBEA
Heating might happen inside the chopper so that heat sink can be attached for proper dissipation of heat. Also to get more heat concentrated equally on the module, a metal plate is used which spreads the heat. To provide external support all the elements are fitted inside a box. Heating, an important phenomenon is provided with the help of byproducts from both the industries and domestic areas and in absence of byproduct, candle flames or woods can be used as the source. It is provided to the Peltier modules which are connected to the cooling source. Cooling can be provided by chilled water or ice storing into a metal tray or heat sink can be fixed with the Peltier modules and use of a fan to dissipate the heat and provide cooling. This arrangement starts producing voltage in some time and that too without making any noise. Also, the rigid construction can wield a much and the Peltier modules itself can easily work for a long life span without any failures.

4.2 METHOD OF WORKING

The Peltier modules are fitted below the cooling source which can be a heat sink and cooling fan or metal tray containing cooling source and they are fitted inside a wooden box. Peltier
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