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Multi-objective Performance Optimization of Thermo-Electric Coolers Using Dimensional Structural Parameters

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Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2010)

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Thermo-Electric Coolers (TEC) have promising features as it is better than traditional cooling devices based on thermodynamic cycle in many ways like being noiseless, compact and environment friendly as it is free of CFC responsible for ozone layer depletion. However, TEC have poor performance in terms of Coefficient of Performance (COP) and peak value of rate at which heat is extracted from space to be cooled. Hence, it is obviously of interest to designers, that the above mentioned limitation shall be compensated by optimizing structural parameters such as area and length of thermoelectric elements such that these device operate at near optimal conditions. In present work, this problem is systematically decomposed in two segments, namely single objective optimization and multi-objective optimization. In the end, some useful insights are reported for designers about structural parameters of TEC.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering & Technology, Amity University, Sector 125, Noida, 201 303, India

    P. K. S. Nain

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Skyline Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, 201 306, India

    J. M. Giri

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, 201 306, India

    S. Sharma

  4. Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208 016, India

    K. Deb

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University, 700032, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  3. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

    Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Subhransu Sekhar Dash

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Nain, P.K.S., Giri, J.M., Sharma, S., Deb, K. (2010). Multi-objective Performance Optimization of Thermo-Electric Coolers Using Dimensional Structural Parameters. In: Panigrahi, B.K., Das, S., Suganthan, P.N., Dash, S.S. (eds) Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing. SEMCCO 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17563-3_71

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