Employment of Human-Emitted Heat for Hand Lamps

Ahmed Farouk Abdel Gawad

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Employment of Human-Emitted Heat for Hand Lamps

Ahmed Farouk Abdel Gawad

Published in American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 31 October 2016 Accepted: 17 January 2017 Published: 23 February 2017

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The present work concerns the design, manufacturing and testing of a non-battery hand lamp. The present idea is based on utilization of human-emitted heat to activate a Peltier thermo-electric module for electricity generation. This technique is an emerging energy-harvesting application. The size of the lamp is suitable to be hold by the hand of a grown-up person. A group of nine suitable and powerful LEDs were used as the light source of the lamp. A special housing was designed and fabricated of Teflon. Also, the lamp was supplied by a heat sink to increase the efficiency of the Peltier module. Interesting conclusions and suggestions for further development are stated.

Published in	American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajmie.20170203.14
Page(s)	137-143
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Human-Emitted Heat, Hand Lamps, Peltier Thermo-Electric Module

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Ahmed Farouk Abdel Gawad

Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

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