Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger

Aichatou Galy Adam; Bulent Yesilata

doi:10.38088/jise.1170626

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Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger

Abstract

In areas where the access to an off-grid electricity is not possible or not reliable, the transport and conservation of vaccine and medicines is not possible. Nevertheless, these areas need and have right to access medicine. This need is much more critical nowadays since preservation of COVID-19 vaccines require cold-chain at some level of degree. Solar energy can be used to power the refrigerator destined to keep the medicines and vaccines cool. Even tough stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) is already used to power these coolers, our work shows that the use of a Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric hybrid generators could allow a great improvement of the autonomy. The output power of the PV alone and the hybrid are investigated under Niger meteorological conditions. These two systems coupled with a medical cooler are investigated. The results show that the hybrid system produces considerably more power to be stored in the battery, indicating much longer autonomy. Under the same conditions, when the PV reached its lowest efficiency of 12.24% , the hybrid was at his efficiency peak 19.62%. Thus, a rise of 5.88% was achieved. Our work presented here is important for giving a message to the international organizations that sustainable cold chains needed for equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution is clearly possible with solar PV/TE driven DC refrigerators.

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English

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Engineering

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Research Article

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Aichatou Galy Adam ^*
0000-0002-0054-0475
Türkiye

Bulent Yesilata
0000-0002-1552-5403
Türkiye

Early Pub Date

June 19, 2023

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June 21, 2023

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September 12, 2022

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March 13, 2023

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Year 2023 Volume: 7 Number: 1

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https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1170626

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Galy Adam, A., & Yesilata, B. (2023). Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering, 7(1), 74-87. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1170626

AMA

1.Galy Adam A, Yesilata B. Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger. JISE. 2023;7(1):74-87. doi:10.38088/jise.1170626

Chicago

Galy Adam, Aichatou, and Bulent Yesilata. 2023. “Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 7 (1): 74-87. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1170626.

EndNote

Galy Adam A, Yesilata B (June 1, 2023) Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 7 1 74–87.

IEEE

[1]A. Galy Adam and B. Yesilata, “Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger”, JISE, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 74–87, June 2023, doi: 10.38088/jise.1170626.

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Galy Adam, Aichatou - Yesilata, Bulent. “Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 7/1 (June 1, 2023): 74-87. https://doi.org/10.38088/jise.1170626.

JAMA

1.Galy Adam A, Yesilata B. Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger. JISE. 2023;7:74–87.

MLA

Galy Adam, Aichatou, and Bulent Yesilata. “Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger”. Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 74-87, doi:10.38088/jise.1170626.

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1.Aichatou Galy Adam, Bulent Yesilata. Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger. JISE. 2023 Jun. 1;7(1):74-87. doi:10.38088/jise.1170626

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Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Power for Sustainable Cold Chains Needed for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery and Use in Niger

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