Cooling systems based on caloric effects show great potential, due to their high efficiencies and the lack of environmentally hazardous substances needed for their operation. In this work a numerical analysis of a cooling system designed for cooling of electronic components based on elastocaloric and electrocaloric effects is performed. A mathematical model and further numerical model, which enables parametric optimization of such a system is developed. The results show that this kind of micro cooling system can have a cooling capacity up to 0,3 W/cm^2 and maximum COP values up to 15 at temperature span of around 1 K. With this, we proved the potentials and the limits of caloric micro cooling systems, which could play an important role in cooling of electronic components in the future.
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