ELECTRICAL GENERATOR USING THE THERMOELECTRIC EFFECT AND TWO CHEMICAL REACTIONS, I.E. EXOTHERMIC AND ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS, TO GENERATE AND DISSIPATE HEAT, RESPECTIVELY

摘要

An electric generator based on a thermoelectric effect includes at least a heat source, a heat dissipator and a thermoelectric converter provided with at least two areas respectively in contact with the heat source and the heat dissipator. The heat source is the center of an exothermic chemical reaction, such as the catalytic combustion of hydrogen. The heat dissipator is the center of an endothermic chemical reaction, at least one product of which forms one of the reagents of the exothermic chemical reaction. Once it is formed by the heat dissipator, said product is then directed towards the input of the heat source in order to react there. The endothermic chemical reaction is more particularly a steam reforming reaction for methanol.