Production of electric potential of human skin using thermoelectric modules

Subject Areas : Renewable energy

mohammad saemian ¹ (student)
Abdollah Khalesi Doost ² (Energy and Sustainable Development Research Center, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran)
nader rahbar ³ (استادیار، مرکز تحقیقات انرژی و توسعه پایدار، واحد سمنان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، سمنان، ایران)

Received: 2015-12-27 Accepted : 2016-02-23 Published : 2016-02-20

Keywords: Energy recovery mashine, thermoelectric technology, thermal hest sink, temperature difference,

Abstract :

The various methods for energy conservation and energy efficiency in industry, and renewable energy as one of the main factors for the formation and development of industrial societies known. Due to the reduction of fossil fuels, their growing need for communities to energy price increases, the phenomenon of thermoelectric waste heat recovery and recycling in various parts of the human body can be used. Different parts of the body have different temperature, an average temperature of the body is mainly about 37.5 ° C is accepted, but an average temperature of about 32° C is the skin. Since the temperature of the skin over the ambient temperature is the temperature difference, the thermal energy contained in the skin can be used to generate electric power using heat recovery can be used. Electric power generation in the absence of the temperature difference between the body and the environment is poor, but through optimization heat sink recycling device can be improved output voltage The advantages of thermoelectric technology can be clean and quiet, the lack of mechanical parts, simple maintenance, low weight and long life that is nearly 100 thousand hours mentioned. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of thermoelectric modules to produce power from heat output is human skin. The results of the modeling show that the temperature difference across the thermoelectric more electrical power will increase.