[it] [tuotteistajat] Master thesis presentation

[Arho Suominen]

Hi everyone,

On Friday 8.10.2010 at 8.40 (room B2033 ICT-building) Mr. Jussi Oksanen 
will give his Master Thesis presentation titled:

"Screening the possibility to productize a self-powered cottage heater 
from electrical and practical point of view" (In Finnish: "KÄYTÄNNÖN 
SELVITYS MAHDOLLISUUDESTA TUOTTEISTAA SÄHKÖISESTI OMAVARAINEN 
MÖKKILÄMMITIN")

Please feel free to come and listen to the presentation. Jussi has done 
practical work in industry by developing an new type of a product for a 
company. The project was interesting in both technical as well as 
product development point of view.

The abstract of the Master thesis can be found below.


BR, Arho

"Utilizing the thermoelectric phenomena to produce electricity have been 
considered for approximately 200 years. Still, the technology has not 
made its breakthrough. The main reasons are the lack of ideas where to 
utilize it efficiently, the poor designs, low efficiency of the 
thermoelectric generators (TEG) and the price. The reason why the tech-
nology is reasonable to use now in the cottage heaters is the unusually 
good circumstances. TEGs generate their electricity from the heat flow 
and temperature difference. The bigger the temperature difference in 
certain limits, the more electricity can be produced. The cottage heater 
is typically used from late autumn to early spring when cold
air can used to cool the cold side of the TEG.

Before the invention can be made into a functional product, the assembly 
of the TEG to the  surface  of  the  cottage  heater  includes  many 
variables  that  need  to  be  fully  controlled. Controlling the 
variables is costly as well. Thus, the manufacturing costs need to be 
low in order for the customer to be willing to buy the electrically 
self-powered heater. In any case, customers require that the heaters are 
electrically self-powered or power generating. Hence, there is a good 
possibility to manufacture profitable heater products with added TEGs’."

-- 
Arho Suominen
University Teacher
Lic.Sc.(Tech)

University of Turku
Department of Information Technology
Ylhäistentie 2 -  24130 Salo
Finland

+358 50 5050 354
arho.suominen at utu.fi
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arhosuominen



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