• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.572-581
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• 2001

A heat pipe heat sink device which is to evacuate maximum heat of about 1800W from a powersemiconductor was designed and manufactured One set of cooling device os composed of an Aluminum block (130${\times}$160${\times}$35mm) 4 PFC heat pipes $(d_0 22.23mm)$ and 126 Aluminium fins (250${\times}$58${\times}$0.8mm) Experimental data obtained at a power of 1~2kW revealed that the total thermal resistance of the device varied 0.02~0.018$^{\circ}C$/W along with increasing air velocity from 2m/s to 3 m/s. The result represented a good satisfaction of requirement condition to maintain temperature rise of semiconductor lowe that $40^{\circ}C$ at 1800W and air velocity of 3 m/s Some important resistance such as convective resistances at both fins and heat pipes showed good agreement between mathematical predictions and measurement data.