Optimalisasi sistem pendingin berbasis termoelektrik berpendingin air

Abstract

The need of refrigerator makes an increase in use of hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon each year. Hydrocarbons and fluorocarbons are hazardous subtances that can make a damage on ozone in statosphere and increase in receive of ultraviolet on humans and give negative impact on health. Thermoelectric refrigeration as a solid state heat pump is a safe solution to subtitute the used of hidrocarbons and fluorocarbons based refrigerator. The experiment is conducted to test a thermoelectric based refrigeration system which uses water as a working fluid. The result shows that refrigeration system will be optimum at 6V and 2.24A of electricity consumption, and 0.5 litre/minute of water flowrate. While Coefficient of Performance (COP) of the system is 0.86.