Electrocaloric cooler combining ceramic multi-layer capacitors and fluid
Auteurs
D. Sette, A. Asseman, M. Gérard, H. Strozyk, R. Faye, and E. Defay
Référence
APL Materials, vol. 4, no. 9, 2016
Description
In this paper, an electrocaloric (EC) cooler prototype made of 150 ceramic-based Multi-Layer Capacitors (MLCs) has been detailed. This cooler involves a column of dielectric fluid where heat exchange with the MLCs takes place. The maximum variation of temperature in the fluid column due to the EC effect reaches 0.13 K whereas the heat exchanged during one stroke is 0.28 J. Although this prototype requires improvements with respect to heat exchange, the basic principle of creating a temperature gradient in a column of fluid has been validated.
