Thermal performance of a thermoelectric air-cooling system with heat sinks

Thermal performance of a louver-fin and a plate-fin in a thermoelectric cooling system with a duct-flow type fan arrangement is analytically evaluated. The thermoelectric cooling system consists of a thermoelectric module and two heat exchanger fins. The analytic results show that the optimized louver fin has lower thermal resistance than plate fin. The COP and heat absorbed rate of the thermoelectric cooling system with optimized louver fins are about 10% and 6% higher than optimized plate fins, respectively.