低温热源可用于提供必要的热能，以驱动热电发电机，热电发电机又可与热电冰箱耦合，以提供适度的冷却。该设备效率低下，但由于热源温度较低，它可以利用发电机上现成的热电冷却模块。该系统简单、坚固、可靠。它只提供热能来源和合适的散热器进行冷却。为了有效利用发电机和冰箱的特性，有必要将多个发电机模块串并联配置，以提供发电机电流，从而产生最大的冷却效果，或者如果需要，作为冰箱的最佳性能系数。 由于这是一种利用充足低温热源的低效设备，因此似乎适合设计最大冷却效果。引文:美国密苏里州堪萨斯城ASHRAE学报第76卷第2部分

A low temperature heat source may be utilized to provide the necessary thermal energy to drive a thermoelectric generator which in turn may be coupled to a thermoelectric refrigerator in order to provide a modest amount of cooling. The device will be admittedly inefficient, but it can utilize readily available thermoelectric cooling modules for the generator because of the low temperature of the heat source. The system is simple, rugged, and reliable. It provides cooling with only a source of thermal energy and a suitable heat sink.To make effective use of the characteristics of both the generator and the refrigerator it is necessary to arrange several generator modules in a series parallel configuration providing ganerator current producing either the maximum cooling effect, or if desired, the best coefficient of performance as a refrigerator. As this is a low efficiency device making use of an ample, low temperature heat source, it would seem appropriate to design for the maximum cooling effect.