An Evalyuation of TEC and TEG Characterization for a Road Thermal Energy Harvesting

This paper presented a characterization of TEC and TEG for a road thermal energy harvesting system (RTEHs) purposes. Five modules are chosen randomly from unknown manufacturer to reputable ones where the prices range from low to high used to find the potential thermoelectric module (TEM) for RTEHs according to Malaysia's climate. The experiment confirms the previous work where TEC work efficiently for lower temperature <;75 °C for power generation than TEG. The study found that size and the configuration placement of the module, influence the generated output greatly. By cascading it, module on top of module, the module able to generate, 2.3194 V at Tc = 31.653 °C, Th = 61.335 °C and ΔT = 29.77°C.