Monday, 14 May 2018: 09:20
Room 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
The electrochemical thermoelectric coefficient (SEC =dV/dT; V and T are the redox potential and temperature, respectively) is a significant material parameter, because it enables us to convert thermal energy to electric energy. We demonstrate that a battery-type thermocell, which consists of two kinds of Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) with different SEC, produces electric energy during heat cycles. The Figure shows heat cycle of battery-type thermocell against cell voltage (Vcell) and temperature (T). The heat cycle consists of four processes: (i) heating from TL to TH , (ii) discharge at TH, (iii) cooling from TH to TL, and (vi) discharge at TL. The heating and cooling processes are performed without current (I = 0) The device produces electric energy of 2.3 meV/PBA par a heat cycle between 295 K (= TL) and 323 K (= TH). The thermal efficiency (= 1.0 %), which is evaluated with use of the heat capacity (C = 4.16 meV/K) of ideal Na2Co[Fe(CN)6], reaches 11 % of the Carnot efficiency (= 8.7 %). Our battery-type thermocell is a promising thermoelectric device that harvests waste heat near the room temperature.