1) The document summarizes the design and implementation of a portable solar powered refrigerator unit using Peltier modules.
2) The objectives are to develop a prototype air-to-air heat pump using Peltier elements built into PV panels for pre-cooling and evaluate it economically.
3) The prototype was able to reduce ambient temperature up to 0 degrees within 38 minutes showing potential for portable solar powered refrigeration.
1) The document summarizes the design and implementation of a portable solar powered refrigerator unit using Peltier modules.
2) The objectives are to develop a prototype air-to-air heat pump using Peltier elements built into PV panels for pre-cooling and evaluate it economically.
3) The prototype was able to reduce ambient temperature up to 0 degrees within 38 minutes showing potential for portable solar powered refrigeration.
1) The document summarizes the design and implementation of a portable solar powered refrigerator unit using Peltier modules.
2) The objectives are to develop a prototype air-to-air heat pump using Peltier elements built into PV panels for pre-cooling and evaluate it economically.
3) The prototype was able to reduce ambient temperature up to 0 degrees within 38 minutes showing potential for portable solar powered refrigeration.
1) The document summarizes the design and implementation of a portable solar powered refrigerator unit using Peltier modules.
2) The objectives are to develop a prototype air-to-air heat pump using Peltier elements built into PV panels for pre-cooling and evaluate it economically.
3) The prototype was able to reduce ambient temperature up to 0 degrees within 38 minutes showing potential for portable solar powered refrigeration.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PELTIER BASED SOLAR POWERED
PORTABLE REFRIGERATOR UNIT
SRI VENKATESHWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Vidyanagar, Bangalore - 562 157 Department Of Electricals and Electronics Engineering BY: Rashmi P Guided By: Yasaswini Ponnaganti MR. Arjun Kumar G B Chethankumar Y K Asst. Professor of EEE dept Pradeep B R SVCE , Bengaluru.
INTRODUCTION In our day to day life there is an increase in the consumption of energy due to this rate of consumption of energy is increasing, with the decrease in the renewable energy resources. With the high usage of fossil fuels like petroleum, coal, etc, various environmental problem like pollution. Ozone layer depletion, global warming are available/renewable energy resource like solar, wind we can overcome electricity demand and also environmental problems Our aim is to introduce the portable refrigerator using peltier module with solar energy as supply which overcomes the disadvantages of existing refrigerator with increase in population and environment degradation there is an alarming rate for thermoelectric couple system have come to rescue as these are environmental friendly, affordable and compact in size.
OBJECTIVES The objective of this project is to develop a proto type of an air to air heat pump, where peltier elements are build into PV panel for pre-cooling as refrigerator , and evaluate it from an economic perspective.
BLOCK DIAGRAM METHODOLOGY The main principle behind this refrigerator is peltier effect, Peltier module uses Peltier effect to create a heat flux between the junction of two different types of material. The principle of Peltier effect is when DC current flows through the device, it brings heat from one side to other, so that one side gets cooled while other side gets hotter. Radiator are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling. The feedback of Peltier module is connected to Arduino. Arduino used here is ATMEL ATMEGA 328. The ATMEL 8-bit AVR RISC based microcontroller combines 32KB ISP flash with 28 pins. Arduino uno is programmed with arduino software. Temperature sensor is connected to arduino whose output voltage varies linearly with change in temperature. Arduino is connected to GSM module and LCD display. GSM module used is SIM 900 which operates at 900 MH. It is used to send and receive message. LCD display is used to display temperature and voltage. A good thermoelectric cooling design is achieved using a TEC, which is solid state electrically driven heat exchanger. This depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. When TEC is used for cooling, it absorbs heat from the surface to be cooled and transfers the energy by conduction to the finned or liquid heat exchanger, which ultimately dissipates the waste heat to the surrounding ambient air by means of convection. RESULT We have achieved an ambient temperature to reduce upto 0 degree with temperature variation within the TEC is less than 1 degree as this was prototype sample with improvement in prototyping we can achieve even lower temperature.
CONCLUSION While no one cooling method is ideal in all respects and the use of a thermoelectric cooling system will not be suitable for every application, thermoelectric air conditioners will often provide substantial benefits over alternative technologies. The use of thermoelectric refrigerator often provides solutions to many complex cooling problems where a low to moderate amount of heat must be handled in a harsh environment. They can cool enclosures to temperatures below ambient conditions while producing little noise and vibration. Featuring reliability and a long life span coupled with flexible input power requirements and mounting arrangements, thermoelectric air conditioners offer significant advantages over conventional cooling methods. In addition, they are ideal solutions for applications where the cooling system must be portable or subjected to motion. In this proto type the cooling can b obtained to 5oc in 38 mins. In future the time can reduced, evn temperature can be reduced corresponding to time.
SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK
The units of energy production can be developed in the various regions by these days the society face the energy crisis and also the harmful effects of pollution. The theromo electricity is generate electricity without any harm ful effect . Thermoelectric devices achived an importance in recent years and in future it still increase a variable solution for application such as spot cooling of electronic components, remote power generation in space station and satellites etc. .since heat from soloar energy is provided as input to this implementation the cooling will be the output. How ever they require some modification related to their size and selection of material but their cheapnrss, eco friendly nature, no cause to global warming are enough inputs to motivate the engineers for their implementations in almost all the suitable application of daily life in near future.
Students: Email id Mobile no.
Chethankumar Y K ykchethankumar.94@gmail.com 9742114317 Pradeep B R pradeepbr44@gmail.com 9738859581 Rashmi P rashmi.paramesh73@gmail.com 8951751969 Yasaswini ponnaganti yashu.p1402@gmail.com 9036998037
