CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This Chapter presents the Introduction, History and Background, General and Specific Objective, Significance of the Study and Scope and Delimitation of the Study DOCX

Title	CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This Chapter presents the Introduction, History and Background, General and Specific Objective, Significance of the Study and Scope and Delimitation of the Study
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This Chapter presents the Introduction, History and Background, General and Specific Objective, Significance of the Study and Scope and Delimitation of the Study 1.1 Introduction Each year the society spends a tremendous amount of its energy resources and a signi cant fraction of these energy resources consists of fossil fuels which were created several hundred million years ago and are non-renewable. A signi cant amount of energy is being rejected to the ambient in the electricity generation and the transportation sectors. This is due to the inefficient utilization of energy resources and system inefficiencies. Waste heat can be reutilized as a heat source for other processes. However, it is often difficult to match efficient reutilization processes to sources. In contrast, converting the waste heat into electrical power would be convenient and effective for a number of applications. Generating electricity using conventional energy conversion would necessitate the need for a stable and high energy density source which is unlike the characteristics of a waste heat source. However, a directly viable solution for converting waste heat into electrical energy is to use thermoelectric power conversion. Thermoelectric power generation (TPG) is based on solid state technology with no moving parts and can be easily adapted to wide range of operating conditions....