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Influence of NCG Charged Mass on the Thermal Performance of VCHP with Screen Mesh Wick  

Park, Young-Sik (Department of Automotive Machine, Korea Polytechnic IV College)
Chung, Kyung-Taek (2nd Stage BK21(AMAEEP), Gyeongsang National University)
Suh, Jeong-Se (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ERI, Gyeongsang National University)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.20, no.10, 2008 , pp. 689-695 More about this Journal
Abstract
Experimental study has been performed to investigate the influence of non-condensible gas(NCG) charged mass on the thermal performance of a variable conductance heat pipe(VCHP) with screen mesh wick. The VCHP is furnished by screen mesh number 200 for the pipe outer diameter of 12.7mm and the pipe length of 500 mm. The VCHP is filled with water as working fluid of 4.8g and nitrogen as NCG and has evaporator, condenser and adiabatic section, respectively. For the results from experiment, it is found that, for the same charged mass of working fluid, the overall wall temperatures of heat pipe grows up with increasing NCG charged mass. The variation of operating temperature of VCHP reduces with increasing NCG mass. In addition, the profile of axial wall temperature distribution is presented for heat transport capacity of heat pipe, the temperature of cooling water of condenser, inclination angle, and operating temperature.
Keywords
Mesh wick; Non-condensible gas; Variable conductance heat pipe; Working fluid;
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