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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2010
Hongbin MA, Columbia, MO (US);
Peng Cheng, Columbia, MO (US);
Joseph A. Boswell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hongbin Ma, Columbia, MO (US);
Peng Cheng, Columbia, MO (US);
Joseph A. Boswell, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);
Abstract
A hybrid thermoelectric-ejector active cooling system having an increased Coefficient of Performance (COP) when compared to typical thermoelectric cooling modules. A thermoelectric cooling module is integrated with an ejector cooling device so that heat from the thermoelectric cooling module is rejected to a high temperature evaporator of the ejector cooling device. This provides for a total COP greater than the sum of the COPs of the thermoelectric cooling module and ejector cooling device individually. For example, given 1 unit input power into the thermoelectric cooling module, the heat received by the cold side of the thermoelectric cooling module would be COP×1; and the energy rejected by the hot side of the thermoelectric cooling module and to drive the ejector cooling device would be COP+1. Thus, the cooling received by the low temperature evaporator of the ejector cooling device is COP×(COP+1); and therefore total COPis COP+COP+COP×COP. In addition, the hybrid thermoelectric ejector active cooling system will be able to operate at higher temperature differentials than standalone thermoelectric cooling devices.