Innovative Cold Storage Air Conditioning System Development For Vehicles

The conventional vapor compression air conditioning systems, which consist of air compressor fromthe e ngine s haft, c ondenser, e xpansion v alve a nd e vaporator a re u sed i n t he today’s automotiveindustry. These systems are quite prone to development and to improvement in terms of energyconsumption, cost competitiveness and weight reduction. The variable waste energy, which isgenerated during driving of the vehicles, can be stored and used inside the vehicle cabin interior inthe form of latent heat at a constant temperature. Thus an environmental lightweight and improvedair conditioning system can be developed instead of complex, heavy, expensive and energy consumingcurrent systems. In this study, the electrical energy obtained during the braking of the vehiclealternator, electricity produced by thermoelectric module from the exhaust heat and receivingvariable electrical energy from engine on the vehicle-induced vibration (piezoelectric generator), therough roads of the induced vibrations (electromagnetic generator); Peltier heat pump was used to aidthe vehicle interior cabin air-conditioning using liquid to solid phase change fluids. Thus, all wasteenergy can be stored at constant temperature so that it can be used the air conditioning system.