Abstract
Summary In industry, temperature control and heat flow control are now applied in many thermal devices, including Peltier devices, which facilitates heat transfer by the Peltier effect. Generally, temperature control compensates for heat flowing from the external environment, while heat actively flows into the system during heat flow control. Thus, temperature control and heat flow control differ from each other. However, there have been no detailed discussions of a thermal control process in which the thermal conductance control ranges between 0 and ∞. This paper focuses on thermal conductance control and the construction of a thermal conductance control system for a Peltier device using a heat disturbance observer. When using the thermal conductance controller, the thermal conductance control is altered and the system becomes thermally compliant with the external environment. This paper also presents experimental results that confirm the validity of the proposed control system. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 185(4): 44-52, 2013; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.22411
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 44-52 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Electrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi) |
Volume | 185 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 Dec |
Keywords
- Peltier device
- disturbance observer
- thermal conductance
- thermal control
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering