nanoHUB-U Thermoelectricity L4.2: Thermoelectric Systems - Thermoelectric cost/efficiency trade off

Table of Contents:
00:09 Lecture 4.2: Thermoelectric cost/efficiency Trade off
00:23 Solar Cells (Efficiency+ Cost → $/W)
01:02 Model of TE module + heat exchanger for cost/efficiency trade off analysis
02:55 TE module & cold side heat exchanger for waste heat recovery
04:16 Maximum power output
05:37 Heat sink optimization
06:14 Components of TE system (cost per unit area)
09:48 Use of heat spreading inside TE module (thermal concentration)
10:37 Fractional area factor
11:30 Cost per unit area for TE bottom cycle waste heat recovery (TE module + heat sink)
12:55 TE Module/Heat Sink Material Cost per Watt (car exhaust application)
15:30 TE for topping cycle applications
16:08 TE / Steam Turbine combined cycle
18:23 TE/Steam Turbine Energy Cost
19:05 Detailed Coal-Fired Power Plant Model
19:39 Topping Cycle TE Coal-Fired Power Plant
20:15 Lecture 4.2: Summary

This video is part of the nanoHUB-U course "Thermoelectricity: From Atoms to Systems." The third-fifth week is taught by Ali Shakouri. (http://nanohub.org/courses/teas)

This five-week short course introduces students to the thermoelectric theory and applications using a unique, "bottom up" approach to carrier transport that has emerged from research on molecular and nanoscale electronics.
The first two weeks of the course introduce this new perspective and connects it to the traditional treatment of thermoelectric science. Landauer formalism provides a unified framework to study both electron and phonon transport. The following three weeks introduce latest nanoscale and macroscale characterization techniques, the design of thermoelectric systems, and recent advances in nanoengineered thermoelectric materials and physics.