TY - GEN
T1 - Development of packaging and modular control of thermoelectric clothes dryer, with performance evaluation
AU - Patel, Viral K.
AU - Gluesenkamp, Kyle R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ASME.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper provides an overview of a thermoelectric heat pump clothes dryer which was developed with the aim of reducing the significant primary energy consumption attributed to residential electric clothes drying in the United States (623 TBtu/yr). The use of thermoelectric modules in place of the conventional electric resistance heater resulted in a 40% reduction in the energy consumption of the system, compared to the minimum energy efficiency standard. This was achieved for the first time for a standard test load of 8.45 lb, using a clothes dryer prototype with a thermoelectric heat pump module as the sole heating mechanism. The current experimental prototype was developed after extensive modeling, system design and control optimization, and experimental system-level evaluation of control parameters. The demonstration of improved energy consumption has laid the foundation for future development of this technology.
AB - This paper provides an overview of a thermoelectric heat pump clothes dryer which was developed with the aim of reducing the significant primary energy consumption attributed to residential electric clothes drying in the United States (623 TBtu/yr). The use of thermoelectric modules in place of the conventional electric resistance heater resulted in a 40% reduction in the energy consumption of the system, compared to the minimum energy efficiency standard. This was achieved for the first time for a standard test load of 8.45 lb, using a clothes dryer prototype with a thermoelectric heat pump module as the sole heating mechanism. The current experimental prototype was developed after extensive modeling, system design and control optimization, and experimental system-level evaluation of control parameters. The demonstration of improved energy consumption has laid the foundation for future development of this technology.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041714903&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/IPACK2017-74243
DO - 10.1115/IPACK2017-74243
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041714903
T3 - ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, InterPACK 2017, collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems
BT - ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, InterPACK 2017, collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, InterPACK 2017, collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems
Y2 - 29 August 2017 through 1 September 2017
ER -
