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Design and implementation of a measurement system for automatically measurement of electrical parameters of thermoelectric generators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2013

Dmitry Petrov ,
Fabian Assion  and
Ulrich Hilleringmann
Dmitry Petrov
Affiliation:
Department of Sensor Technology, University of Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
Fabian Assion
Affiliation:
Department of Sensor Technology, University of Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
Ulrich Hilleringmann
Affiliation:
Department of Sensor Technology, University of Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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Abstract

The continues development of thermoelectric generators causes a permanent improvement of their characteristics. New types of thermoelectric generators can work at temperatures up to 1000 K. With this, special measurement equipment is needed to control the electrical parameters of the new developed specimens. The devices must be tested over the whole range of operating temperatures. For each temperature value a series of electrical measurements has to be performed. To establish the maximal output power of the thermoelectric generators, a load resistor with variable resistance has to be connected to the output of thermoelectric generator. The measurement system should measure the electrical current through the load resistor and the voltage over this resistor to determine the device parameters. A large amount of measurement data have to be collected and processed to evaluate the electrical characteristics of the specimen and to present them in graphical form, suitable for the comparison with others specimens.

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thermoelectricsemiconductingenergy generation
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1490: Symposium B – Thermoelectric Materials Research and Device Development for Power Conversion and Refrigeration , 2013 , pp. 191 - 196
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2013 

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