Design and Analysis of Thermoelectric Generator for Waste Heat Recovery From Automobile Exhaust

Energy loss is the crucial bottleneck in the world of automobile. It often rose as crisis all across the globe. Thusfor reducing energy consumption various technologies have been invented. Thermoelectric Generation is one of them which are rapidly developing technology used for recovering the energy. As in automobile sector the low efficiency being the paramount demerit due to this lots of heat energy is getting wasted. Taking this concept into mind the objective of this paper is to utilize the waste heat energy using Thermoelectric Generation.Thermoelectric Generation being the promising technology had focused on various thermoelectric materials that are used to recover the heat. The recovery of energy is in much less amount but the start is always required that accelerates the future work. Thus this work has a simple objective to get back the energy from exhaust in the form of electricity that can be used for various accessories in an automobile. This project works on the exhaust of Bajaj Pulsar 150 model to mount the Thermoelectric Generator (TEG). Also, the paper focuses on the optimized design of the Thermoelectric Generator followed by the thermal analysis to generate electricity produced during running of an automobile. The ultimate aim is to recover the maximum energy in the form of electricity