A Comprehensive Thermoelectric Cooler (TEC) Modelling

Faced with the ongoing energy and electricity crises in South Africa and by extension Africa, this paper presents a comprehensive model of Thermo-Electric Cooler (TEC), in a bid to devise an innovative renewable energy cooler to serve as an efficient heat pump, in which a low DC power source can be applied to it to generate cold, thereby decreasing the total power consumption. The novelty brought forward is an original simulated TEC model in MatLab / Simulink that can easily be configured with respect to a given DC source and thermal load, to determine a TEC optimal operational parameters to increase its heat absorption (cooling power Qc) capacity and as well its coefficient of performance (CoP).