The electric micro-generation is gaining an increasing interest in the last years both for off-grid systems and for energy harvesting applications. In particular, starting from our skills and expertise in the field of microcombustion, the interest is now moving towards the development of co-generative and energy recovery systems based on Peltier cells.

The research activity concerns the development and characterization of a micro-generation system consisting in a catalytic micro-scale combustor coupled with thermoelectric modules. In particular, for the characterization of the meso-scale combustor, temperature measurements at the wall and gas concentration at the exhaust are carried out for chemical efficiency evaluation.
The coupling with thermoelectric modules is then properly performed and the device is characterized in terms of overall thermal efficiency. The system scale reduction and the thermal range extension are objects of the current activity.