Thermal performance of a cooling holder with two thermoelectric cooling modules

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cooling capacity and power consumption of a selected efficient design of cooling holder, from previous work published by the authors, for the storage of medication, made by using thermoelectric cooling modules (TECM). The fully functioning product will be used for the storage of medication, in particular vaccine, for the use in developing countries where there is no form of electricity available. The efficient design of the cooling holder was constructed in SolidWorks
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and thermal profiles of the complete system were analyzed in Flow Simulation. This analysis was done to simulate the cooling capacity of the TECM under variable ambient temperatures and input powers. The results from the simulations were then analyzed to determine if the design is appropriate.