INTERCOOLER PROVIDED WITH A THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR FOR A TURBOCHARGED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

摘要

An intercooler (9) for a turbocharged internal combustion heat engine (1); the intercooler (9) has: a cooling chamber (19), which is provided with an air inlet opening (17) and an air outlet opening (18) opposite one another; a plurality of exchanger plates (20), which are stacked on top of one another inside the cooling chamber (19), are arranged parallel to an air flowing direction (D) from the inlet opening (17) to the outlet opening (18), are spaced apart from one another so as to define corresponding air passage channels between one another, and are internally hollow; a circulation circuit (21), which allows a cooling fluid to circulate inside the exchanger plates (20); and a plurality of thermoelectric cells (24), each of which is mounted on a corresponding exchanger plate (20), and has a cold side resting on the exchanger plate (20) and a hot side delimiting a corresponding air passage channel.