• 설비공학논문집
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1051-1059
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• 2004

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.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.415-424
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• 2004

Cooling the electronic equipment is one of the major focal points of the design process and the key to successful product launch. The two-phase loop thermosyphone which is a good candidate among many available options was investigated fur cooling of the high power amplifiers. The system is composed of evaporator which contains 6 parallel cold plates, fan cooled condenser, gas-liquid separator, and interconnecting tubes. Experiments were performed for several refrigerant charging values, hs and as a experiment result, the optimum charging value fur this system was proposed. In order to optimize the system design, the operating cycle pressure and inlet/outlet temperatures of evaporator and condenser are measured and analyzed. The effect of the three parameters such as flow rate and temperature of condenser cooling air, and thermal load on the evaporator are investigated. The lower the operating pressure and the cycle temperatures are also better to prevent the leakage of the system. The system invesigated in this paper can be directly used for cooling of a real unmanned wireless communication station.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.1073-1079
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• 2012

본 논문은 나노유체를 적용하여 써모사이폰 열전달 성능 특성 변화를 실험적으로 규명하는 것을 목적으로 하고 있다. 이를 위하여, 증발부 내부체적을 공유하는 3 개의 독립된 파이프를 가지는 써모사이폰을 제작하였으며 증류수, Ag 나노유체 그리고 $TiO_2$ 나노유체에 대하여 충진량, 증발부에 가해지는 입력열량 그리고 농도변화에 따른 써모사이폰 성능특성 변화를 고찰하였다. 증류수를 작동유체로 사용하는 경우 써모사이폰의 최적충진량은 30%로 결정되었고, $TiO_2$ 나노유체를 적용하는 써모사이폰 열저항이 Ag 나노유체를 적용한 경우에 비하여 평균 18.1% 감소하였다. 또한, 300W 입력열량 및 $TiO_2$ 나노유체 농도 1%에서 써모사이폰의 열전달 성능은 가장 우수하였다.