Open AccessCharging Of SmartPhone Through Self-Generated Heat
Author(s) -
Arishmita Mukherjee,
Aritra Roy,
Arvil Sen,
Amit Mukherjee
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of innovative research in physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2689-484X
pISSN - 2687-7902
DOI - 10.15864/ijiip.1108
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , computer science , power (physics) , energy (signal processing) , thermoelectric cooling , mobile phone , efficient energy use , range (aeronautics) , electrical engineering , thermoelectric effect , telecommunications , engineering , physics , aerospace engineering , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
In this age of highly memory intense applications and increasing size of Random Access Memory (RAM), mobile Central Processing Unit (CPU) temperatures are bound to reach high values; the range can even extend up to 48 degree Celsius. In that case, it would only be logical to try and harvest that heat energy, which could help in the phone’s performance by actually cooling the device down and simultaneously it can be charged through converting this heat energy into electrical energy. When mobile phones are being charged by motion as well, heat should not be left behind because it is one of the most thermodynamically underappreciated sources of energy. In this paper, a Peltier Module has been used to capture heat from the CPU or the surroundings to generate a voltage that will supply power to the battery. The advantages of this method includes that a phone can be charged at anyplacewhere no power source is available. The only disadvantage in this method would be a low efficiency, because heat itself is of very low quality energy source.