Yuping Wang
Academic Specialist
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Heat Recovery Study with TEG
A large amount of usable energy can be found in the exhaust discharge from power plants, engines, and many industrial processes. Capturing some of the otherwise wasted energy through a heat recovery unit would improve the efficiency of the overall system and have favorable environmental effects as well. Among the various heat recovery system designs, a TEG (thermoelectric generator), a compact solid-state device, has been widely used in many applications such as in automobiles. For this project, students are expected to understand the use of TEG in a waste heat recovery process. Each student team is tasked with designing, building, analyzing, and testing a heat transfer device creating a temperature difference on the two sides of the TEG modules. Hot air supplies through a heat gun, simulating the hot exhaust gas, is to be used on the hot side of TEG. The objective of the design is to create a sufficient temperature difference for the TEG module to power a small fan. A second part of the project is for each team to choose a specific heat recovery unit and conduct a review of it. On the testing day, each team will have 15 minutes to set up, demonstrate/test, and disassemble their device. In addition, they will also prepare a PowerPoint slide show or video clip for the audience to explain their design decisions, fabrication, operations, and thermal analysis of their device.
| TIME | STATION | TEAM MEMBERS |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | A | Reagan Ferschweiler, Emily Holman, Sam Rohrer, Jeffrey Zhou |
| | B | Brendan Foster, Antonina Klatka, Luke Lemont, Luke Schmidt |
| 8:15 | A | Hunter Arnett, Cody Bartos, Abby Pankey, Nic Stoller |
| | B | Aaron McDowell, Matthew Mozariwskyj, Jacob Smith, Daniel Staal |
| 8:30 | A | Yusuf Abbas, Citizen Kim, Dayton Kullman, Garrett Martin |
| | B | Jack Bajcz, Jonathon DeFrense, Michael DuFrense, Josh Heibeck |
| 8:45 | A | Elia Al Abdullatif, Michael Maser, Nicholas Nastovski, Tyler Wysocki |
| | B | Jenni Aubin, Ellie Clark, Tommy Erickson, Nick Sarafian |
| 9:00 | A | Stefan Bellman, Danny Drennan, Drew Goodman, Jason Li |
| | B | Jordan Arnold, Matt Fular, Charles Mercer, Sarah Walrath |
| 9:15 | A | Owen Garber, Owen Korff, Adolfo Lopez, Vedi Patel |
| | B | Brandon Gonzalez, Branton Guri, Tori Morgan, Marianna Osentoski |
| 9:30 | A | Matthew Ajlouny, Ryan Geisler, Nelson Ladomer, Maya Patel |
| | B | Graham Bailey, Nico Boehlert-Somohano, Jacob Bruck, Angel Perez |
| 9:45 | A | Alex Johnson, Adam Peckens, Catherine Schenone, Kenny Yue |
| | B | Nicole Gibbons, Manuel Hudecek, Jalen King, Anita Patel |
| 10:00 | A | Sampath Eaty, Luke Honer, Ben Roraff, Andrew Tabaka |
| | B | Haley Denton, Sydney Kelly, Kory Knickerbocker, Aidan Svoboda |
| 10:15 | A | James Fordyce, Taylor Page, Ben Van Hove, Trent Warren |
| | B | Elise Delikat, Jack Feistritzer, Raed Mohammed, Courtney Smith |
| 10:30 | A | Kylie Carbary, Nolan Hoffman, Alex Rodriguez, John Salloum |
| | B | Abel Barraza, Alexander Choma, Logan Roeser-Nordling, Brandon Tsivitse |
| 10:45 | A | Mitchell Bjorne, Wil Jozwiak, Ryan Leinweber, Aditya Swarnkar, Gavin Watthayu |
| | B | Ryan Bolio, Alex Figa, Henry Kantzes, David Twomley |
| 11:00 | A | Alexander Arnold, Josh Bennett, Luke Roethemeyer, Carter Stefanovski, Ben Walters |
| B | Jackson Rayer, Michael Romzek, Arron Stebic, Tate Virkus | |
| 11:15 | A | Mitchell Carroll, Amjid Khogali-Watson, Hunter Staton, Brendan Zwiernik |
| B | Adi Agaram, Luke Aman, Lochlann Dunlavey, Jake Gilman, Charlie Meilinger |