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Thermoelectric coolers (TECs) are solid state devices which consume electrical energy to transfer heat from its cold side to its hot side while maintaining the temperature difference across the two sides. They find extensive application in the field of thermal management and cooling of several electronic systems. One such system is that of optical or microwave detectors employed in spacecrafts and satellites. Such detectors operate intermittently and generate high power densities during their operation. TECs can be integrated into existing thermal control setup to ensure that the optimum operating temperature of detector is controlled so that the accuracy and efficacy of the system is maintained. However, integration of TEC into a given thermal control setup is a tedious task because the information regarding the properties of various materials and intricate geometry of the TEC are not available. The present study aims to develop a methodology to model the transient behavior of TEC without its internal geometry such that it can be readily integrated into the existing thermal control setup. The methodology consists of extracting the various parameters and thermal properties of TEC from its datasheet and modeling the TEC within the environment of a commercially available software. The model is validated against the transient experimental results under pulsed operation available in open literature.
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Patel, A., Sisodia, S.S., Singh, V.K., Das, P., Bhavsar, R., Lakhera, V.J. (2023). Transient Thermal Modeling of Thermoelectric Coolers. In: Singh, V.K., Choubey, G., Suresh, S. (eds) Advances in Thermal Sciences. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6470-1_20
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