Semiconductor Thermal Pump Based on the Principle of Combined Use of Thermoelectric Effects

摘要

The article discusses a semiconductor thermoelectric device, whose principle of action is based on joint use of the Peltier effect and the Seebeck in one instrument, which allows heat transfer from bodies less heated to bodies more heated, directly, due to heat brought in (without the use of external sources of electric power). In principle it is possible to present a similar instrument consisting of a semiconductor thermoelectric refrigerator and, feeding its semiconductor, a thermogenerator forming a closed circuit. There appears the question about reducing to a minimum internal resistances of the thermogenerator and the thermoelectric refrigerator, and also resistances of the connecting conductors. Apparently, in the most rational construction thermocouples of generator and refrigerator must consist of thin semiconductor plates and must be short-circuited against each other.