Electrocaloric cooler combining ceramic multi-layer capacitors and fluid

Autor: Daniele Sette, Alexis Asseman, Mathieu Gérard, Hervé Strozyk, Romain Faye, Emmanuel Defay
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: APL Materials, Vol 4, Iss 9, Pp 091101-091101-6 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2166-532X
DOI: 10.1063/1.4961954
Popis: In this paper, an electrocaloric (EC) cooler prototype made of 150 ceramic-based Multi-Layer Capacitors (MLCs) has been detailed. This cooler involves a column of dielectric fluid where heat exchange with the MLCs takes place. The maximum variation of temperature in the fluid column due to the EC effect reaches 0.13 K whereas the heat exchanged during one stroke is 0.28 J. Although this prototype requires improvements with respect to heat exchange, the basic principle of creating a temperature gradient in a column of fluid has been validated.
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