Experimental Study on the Two Phase Thermosyphone Loop with Parallel Connected Multiple Evaporators under Partial Load and Low Temperature Operating Condition

병렬 연결된 다중 증발기 구조 2상 유동 순환형 열사이폰의 부분부하 및 저온운전 특성에 관한 실험적 연구

  • Kang In-Seak (Research Confer, MSO Information & Communication Co.) ;
  • Choi Dong-Kyu (Research Confer, MSO Information & Communication Co.) ;
  • Kim Taig-young (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University)
  • 강인석 (MSO 정보통신(주) 부설연구소) ;
  • 최동규 (MSO 정보통신(주) 부설연구소) ;
  • 김택영 (한국산업기술대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2004.11.01

Abstract

Two phase thermosyphone loop for electronics cooling are designed and manufactured to test its performance under the partial load and low environment temperature conditions. The thermosyphone device has six evaporators connected parallel for the purpose of cooling six power amplifier units (PAU) independently. The heater modules for simulating PAUs are adhered with thermal pad to the evaporator plates to reduce the contact resistance. There are unbalanced distributions of liquid refrigerant in the differently heated evaporators due to the vapor pressure difference. To reduce the vapor pressure differences caused by partial heating, two evaporators are connected each other using the copper tube. The pressure regulation tube successfully reduces these unbalances and it is good candidates for a field distributed systems. Under the low environment temperature operating condition, such as $-30^{\circ}C$, there may be unexpected subcooling in condenser. It leads the very low saturation pressure, and under this condition there exists explosive boiling in evaporator. The abrupt pressure rise due to the explosive boiling inhibits the supplement of liquid refrigerant to the evaporator for continuous cooling. Finally the cooling cycle will be broken. For the normal circulation of refrigerant there may be an optimum cooling air flow rate in condenser to adjust the given heat load.

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