Electric power control of thermoelectric generation system

Abstract

In recent years, energy saving and reducing CO2 are requested. Therefore thermoelectric generation is noticed. Thermoelectric is a generation technology which generates electricity due to the seebeck effect when temperature difference is given to thermoelectric element. A objective of this paper is to follow electric power to reference input with operator theory and sliding mode control(SMC). Also, SMC is compared proportional-integral(PI) control on simulation. As a result, when a DC-DC converter is controlled by SMC, time to converge on reference input is shorter than when it is controlled by PI control.