What is it about?
Highlight on an article by Fuchs (2014), A Direct Entropic Approach to Uniform and Spatially Continuous Dynamical Models of Thermoelectric Devices, https://doi.org/10.1515/ehs-2014-0011.
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Why is it important?
By treating temperature and entropy as primitive quantities like electric potential or electrochemical potential and electric charge, a direct entropic approach to the description of thermoelectric devices (i.e., coolers and generators) has been made by Fuchs (2014). The article presents a simple and straightforward way to the understanding of thermoelectric processes, which are relevant to the operation of thermoelectric generators (i.e., thermally driven electric charge pumps) and thermoelectric coolers (i.e., electrically driven entropy pumps). The role of energy is easily understood.
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Entropy is the key to comprehensiblity of thermoelectrics and other thermal phenomena.
Prof. Dr. Armin Feldhoff
Leibniz Universitat Hannover
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This page is a summary of: Entropy Counts, Energy Harvesting and Systems, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ehs-2015-0007.
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