Active Passive Thermoelectric System Helmet For Personal Comfort
Azamataufiq Budiprasojo, Risse Entikaria Rachmanita
Engineering Department, State Polytechnic of Jember
Abstract
Helmet is a protective device whose safety standards are strictly certified. Unfortunately its high safety standards sacrifice user-s convenience when using it. Efforts to use air vent on the helmet is complained of still not enough. Thermoelectric modules offer solution that can be used to solve this problem. Thermoelectric models of lamps reduce temperature of surrounding environment when used as an electrical voltage. This research is commonly known as thermoelectric helmet. Perfecting the helmet design is an ongoing research step that needs to be done. Thermoelectric design focuses on how to make the hot side of thermoelectric able to release heat to the environment properly. If the hot side isn-t good at releasing heat, it will affect the temperature on the cold side which is a problem that must be prevented. Thermoelectric helmet that currently under investigation still uses a fan to remove heat from thermoelectric module. The disadvantage of thermoelectric helmets with cooling fans is they are heavy and not compact in size, as well as the fan also requires additional external power that consumes a lot of power. The utilization of fluid flow on a flat plate could theoretically be implemented in this case. Air flowing around the helmet when used driving has a high enough speed so it could theoretically be used to increase rate of heat transfer by convection. Supporting data, design and performance testing of helmet prototypes are the main issues to be examined in this study. Target of this research is to create a comfortable helmet by utilizing a thermoelectric module but in a compact and concise form.
Keywords: Thermoelectric; Active cooling; Helmet; Peltier
Topic: Renewable and Novel Energy Sources