A master thesis from Aalborg University
Waste heat recovery in brake pad using a thermoelectric generator
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Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2012
Submitted on
2012-06-02
Pages
79 pages
Abstract
Slowing down the increase of the energy consumption's is one of the main challenge of this decade. Transporting is one of the biggest energy consuming sector. So, to increase the efficiency of our vehicles, energy harvesting has become more and more widespread in the transports' study field. According to literature, during breaking, an heavy vehicle can waste from 400 to 3000 [kW] mostly converted into heat. That suggest that a large energy recuperation might be possible in this area. However, finding an energy harvesting technology at a scale of our braking system may seem problematic, since most of them as scalability problems. Thermoelectric generator (TEG), might match this problematic. After carring out several experiments to understand and analyse the heat behavior and the energy recovery in different brake pads, we finaly find out that our concept of using a TEG to to recover waste energy is not adaptable to a medium range car. But making some improvements and using it in bigger vehicles could still be an interesting field of investigation.
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