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Theoretical Analysis of Factors Affecting to Heat Transfer Limitation in Screen Mesh Wick Heat Pipe (스크린 메쉬윅 히트파이프의 열전달한계에 영향을 미치는 인자의 이론적 해석)

  • 이기우;노승용;박기호
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.880-889
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of the present study is to examine the factors affecting the heat transfer limitations of screen mesh heat pipe for electronic cooling by theoretical analysis. Diameter of pipe was 6 mm, and mesh numbers are 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 and water was selected as a working fluid. According to the change of mesh number, wick layer, inclination and saturation temperature, capillary pressure, pumping pressure, liquid friction coefficient in wick, vapor friction coefficient, capillary limitation, entrainment limitation, sonic limitation and boiling limitation we analyzed by theoretical design method of a heat pipe. As some results, the capillary limitation in small diameter of heat pipe is largely affected by mesh number and wick layer.

Analysis of Heat Transport Limitations of the Heat Pipe for Structural Characteristics of Sintered Metal Wick (소결윅의 구조적 특성에 따른 히트파이프의 열수송 한계 분석)

  • Kim, Keun-Bae;Kim, Yoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.9
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, effects on the heat transport limitation of heat pipe by the wick structural factors were theoretically analyzed for the sintered-copper wick heat pipe. Uniformity of particle size and sintering process were acted as dominant factors on the pore distribution and wick porosity, and small deviations of the wick thickness and the pore size greatly affected the heat transport limitations of the heat pipe. Especially, slight variations of the wick thickness, mean particle radius and capillary radius along the vapor temperatures and inclination angles remarkably changed the capillary limitation of the heat pipe.

Analysis of Woven Wire Wick Structure for a Miniature Heat Pipe (소형 히트파이프용 편조 윅의 형상 해석)

  • 이진성;김철주
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2001
  • Woven wire wick is very effective structure because of its easiness to insert inside of pipe for a miniature heat pipe. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of the effective flow passage with respect to wire helix angle. Also effective thermal conductivity were examined by defining mean porosity considering effective liquid flow passages. Effective heat transfer area is varied with respect to wire helix angle, and in the range of $\thet=60~65^{\circ}C$, heat transfer area is decreased about 15~20%. Permeability of woven wire wick shows similar value of 200 mesh screen wick. And comparison of experimental results on effective thermal conductivity shows a fairly good agreement with the analytical results.

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Experimental Study on the Working Characteristic of Aluminum Grooved Heat Pipe and Thermosyphon with Inner Arterial Wick (내부 아터리가 있는 알루미늄 그루브 히트파이프와 써모사이펀의 작동특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 홍진관;김대성;정원복
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.894-900
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    • 2000
  • The experimental study for performance improvement of aluminum/freon22 grooved heat pipe was carried out. Arterial wick was used for performance improvement of heat pipe. The experimental result was compared with screen covered grooved wick heat pipe. And also, performance test of grooved wick thermosyphon inserted straight wire in the center of grooved pipe was carried out. This result was compared with the performance test result of grooved wick thermosyphon. The operation limit of artery inserted grooved heat pipe was slightly extended, but thermal resistance of this heat pipe was twice as large as that of screen covered grooved heat pipe. In case of thermosyphon, the operation limit of grooved thermosyphon inserted straight wire in the center of grooved pipe was slightly extended, but thermal resistance was increased, comparing with that of the grooved thermosyphon.

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A Comparative Study of Heat Pipes with Enlarged Condenser Section for Evacuated Solar Collectors (확관 응축부를 갖는 진공관형 태양열 집열기용 히트파이프 성능 비교 연구)

  • Boo, Joon-Hong;Chung, Won-Bok;Kwak, Hee-You
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2002
  • For application to medium temperature solar collerctors $(80\sim120^{\circ}C)$, a heat pipe should be designed properly to efficiently transfer heat to a hotter condenser than common applications. Among many wick structure candidates for heat pipes of this type, a slab wick was selected based on promising performance data reported previously. The thermal performance of slab wick heat pipes, screen wick heat pipes and thermosyphons with enlarged condenser section were experimentally investigated for comparison purpose. The heat pipes were 8.0 mm O.D. (evaporator section) and 25.4 mm O.D. (condenser section) made of copper. The experimental data of the heat pipes were analysed in terms of thermal resistance against thermal load and coolant temperature.

A Study on the Characteristics of Heat Transfer in Heat Pipe with Composition Wick of Screwed Groove - Metallic Mesh (나선형그루브-금망의 복합윅을 갖는 히이트파이프의 전열특성에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, Young-Suk;Lee, Young-Soo;Seoh, Jeong-Il
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 1986
  • The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of heat transfer in Heat Pipe which used the composition wick of screened groove - metallic mesh by ADI method and experimental results. As the results, the more than number of metallic mesh screen layers in a heat pipe increased, the fewer the effect of heat recovery decreased. In case of 1 - layer metallic mesh screen wick, the response of the effect in heat recovery was more rapidly showed than in case of other layers and in spite of high load, the evaporation section of Heat pipe with 1 - layer metallic mesh screen wick showed the stable response and did not show excessive super heat. There was a interrelation between thermal resistance and the variable layers, between thermal resistance and the variable gaps of metallic meshes, the heat transfer characteristics of Heat pipe were depended on the thermal resistance of composition wick.

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Theoretical Analysis of Heat Transport Limitation in a Screen Mesh Wick Heat Pipe

  • Lee, Ki-Woo;Park, Ki-Ho;Lee, Wook-Hyun;Rhi, Seok-Ho
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of the present study is to examine the heat transport limitations in a screen mesh heat pipe for electronic cooling by theoretical analysis. Diameter of pipe was 6mm, and mesh numbers were 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250, and water was investigated as working fluid. According to the change of mesh number, wick layer, inclination and saturation temperature, the maximum heat transport limitations by capillary, entraintment, sonic and boiling were analyzed by a theoretical design method of heat pipe, including capillary pressure, pumping pressure, liquid friction coefficient in wick, vapor friction coefficient, etc. Based on the results, the capillary limitation in a small diameter of heat pipe is largely affected by mesh number and wick layer. Mesh number of 250 is desirable not to be used in pipe diameter of 6 mm, because capillary heat transport limitation decreases by the abrupt increase of liquid friction pressure due to the small liquid flow area. For the heat transport of 15 watt in 6mm diameter pipe, mesh number of 100 and one layer is an optimum wick condition, which thermal resistance is the smallest.

An Experimental Study of a Slab Wick Heat Pipe for Medium-high Operating Temperatures (중온 작동 범위에서의 슬랩윅 히트파이프 성능에 관한 실험 연구)

  • Chung, Won-Bok;Boo, Joon-Hong;Kwak, Hee-Youl
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.11
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    • pp.1630-1637
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    • 2002
  • A slab-wick heat pipe was fabricated and tested for applications where the condenser temperature is in a range of 80 to 12$0^{\circ}C$. The pipe material was 9.53 mm O.D. copper tube and the working fluids were ethanol and water. The total length of the heat pipe was 1.6 m, in which evaporator section was 1.4 m and the condenser was 0.10 m. The slab was a composite wick structure fabricated with STS316 wire screens. Thermal load was varied for a specified fill charge ratio and inclined angle. The optimum fill charge ratio was identified to be 110% based on a theoretical calculation of the pore space in the slab wick of the heat pipe. The maximum thermal load was 120W for ethanol and the same was 200W for water with the condenser temperature of 8$0^{\circ}C$. The thermal performance of the slab wick heat pipe is analysed in terms of temperature characteristics and thermal resistance against thermal load, tilt angle and fill charge ratio.

A Study on Manufacture and Performance Evaluation of a Loop Heat Pipe System with a Cylindrical Evaporator for IGBT Cooling (전력반도체 냉각을 위한 원통형 루프히트파이프 제작 및 성능 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Ki, Jae-Hyung;Ryoo, Seong-Ryoul;Sung, Byung-Ho;Kim, Sung-Dae;Choi, Jee-Hoon;Kim, Chul-Ju
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.11b
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    • pp.1710-1716
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    • 2008
  • The Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) operates to pump the working fluid by means of the capillary force in a wick structure. Particularly, it is difficult to design and manufacture the evaporator consisted of a grooved container and a compensation chamber as well as the wick structure. This study is related to design and manufacture the grooved container coupled with wick structure, the properties of the wick structure such as the permeability, the porosity, and the maximum capillary pressure were measured to apply the cooling technology for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT). The container of the LHP was manufactured by the electrical discharge process and the wick structure was sintered with the nickel particle by an axial-press apparatus with the pulse electronic discharge. As results, the properties of the wick were experimentally obtained about 60% of the porosity, 35kPa of the maximum capillary force and $1.53{\times}10-13m2$ of the permeability.

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