ENERGY HARVESTING FROM EXHAUST WASTE HEAT USING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR (TEG) MODULES

Abstract

Gas and electricity have been utilized greatly as the amount of usage in residential, industrial, and transportation has increases which would lead to the production of waste energy in the form of waste heat from the numerous electrical, machinery and electronic appliances. In this study, harvesting energy from the waste heat of motorcycle exhaust using thermoelectric generator (TEG) modules was aimed for a better output. TEG was used to convert heat energy to electrical energy whenever there was the presence of temperature difference between the hot and cold side of the TEG. It was found that, the higher the number of TEG used has achieved even higher output voltage and current due to the arrangement of series array of TEG modules producing up to 5.802W during the engine ramp.