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The devices that convert heat into usable electricity and use the three established thermoelectric effects known as the Peltier, Seebeck and Thomson effects are thermoelectric generators (TEG). These devices can generate power how long as there is a heat source. TEGs are made from thermoelectric modules and the cost of this modules is high, but the size of modules is considerably small, for projects that have space limitations. This is a huge advantage for TEGs. Many research and studies are made to increase efficiency of the TEGs and determine potential applications for these devices. With the development of TEGs, the number of TEG based applications will be used in most energy applications in the future where low power is required. This new thermoelectric generator is equipped for conversion of environmental (ambient) thermal energy into electric power for a variety of applications that necessitate low power source use in this paper we study TEGs in air conditioning condenser unit. The study refers to efficiency, power generation capacity, cost, size, and system installation complexity to generate power.
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