{"title":"Experimental study of evaporation resistance on porous surfaces in flat heat pipes","authors":"L. Chien, C. Chang","doi":"10.1109/ITHERM.2002.1012463","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This experimental study investigated the effect of particle size and coating thickness of the porous surface on evaporator thermal resistance of a thermosyphon having a 16 mm diameter circular heating area. Copper particles having two kinds of size distributions were sintered on a copper plate. The two particle distributions were 115 /spl mu/m average diameter in the range 50 to 500 /spl mu/m, and 247 /spl mu/m average diameter in the range 180 to 350 /spl mu/m. The particle coating thickness was either 0.5 or 1.0 mm for each distribution. Water was used as the working fluid, and it was tested at 60 or 70/spl deg/C saturation temperature, which corresponds to sub-atmospheric saturation pressure. The heat flux varied between 30 and 550 kW/m/sup 2/. The boiling surfaces were tested in vertical and horizontal orientations, and the experimental results showed negligible effect on the surface orientation. The best boiling surface in the present study is obtained with a coating 1.0 mm thick and 247 /spl mu/m average particle diameter. At 70/spl deg/C this surface yielded less than 0.025 K/W evaporation thermal resistance at 93 W.","PeriodicalId":299933,"journal":{"name":"ITherm 2002. Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (Cat. No.02CH37258)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ITherm 2002. Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (Cat. No.02CH37258)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2002.1012463","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This experimental study investigated the effect of particle size and coating thickness of the porous surface on evaporator thermal resistance of a thermosyphon having a 16 mm diameter circular heating area. Copper particles having two kinds of size distributions were sintered on a copper plate. The two particle distributions were 115 /spl mu/m average diameter in the range 50 to 500 /spl mu/m, and 247 /spl mu/m average diameter in the range 180 to 350 /spl mu/m. The particle coating thickness was either 0.5 or 1.0 mm for each distribution. Water was used as the working fluid, and it was tested at 60 or 70/spl deg/C saturation temperature, which corresponds to sub-atmospheric saturation pressure. The heat flux varied between 30 and 550 kW/m/sup 2/. The boiling surfaces were tested in vertical and horizontal orientations, and the experimental results showed negligible effect on the surface orientation. The best boiling surface in the present study is obtained with a coating 1.0 mm thick and 247 /spl mu/m average particle diameter. At 70/spl deg/C this surface yielded less than 0.025 K/W evaporation thermal resistance at 93 W.