Experimental Study on Two-Phase Heat Transfer of FC-72 in Microchannels Heat Sink

Author(s):  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Guiping Lin ◽  
Hongxing Zhang

A closed-loop two-phase microchannels cooling system using a micro-gear pump was built in this paper. The microchannels heat sink was made of oxygen-free copper, and 14 parallel microchannels with the dimension of 0.8mm(W)×1.5mm(D)×20mm(L) were formed by electric spark drilling followed by linear cutting which separated the channels from each other. The heat transfer performance was evaluated by the fluid temperature, the pressure drop across the micro-channels and the volumetric flow rate. Experiments were performed with refrigerant FC-72 which spanned the following conditions: initial pressure of Pin = 73 kPa, mass velocity of G = 94 – 333 kg/m2s, outlet quality of xe,out = 0 – superheat and heat flux of q″= 25–140 W/cm2. The result showed that, the maximum heat flux achieved 96 W/cm2, as the heating surface temperature was kept below 85 °C and critical heat flux occurred in the condition of low flow rate. Average two-phase heat transfer coefficients increased with the heat flux at low mass flux (G = 94 and 180 kg/m2s) and all heat fluxes, high mass flux (G = 333 kg/m2s) and all heat fluxes, and moderate mass fluxes (G = 224kg/m2s) under low and moderate heat fluxes (q″<110 W/cm2 for G = 224 kg/m2s), which was a feature of nucleate boiling mechanism. Pressure drop through microchannels heat sink was found to be below 4kPa.

Author(s):  
Daxiang Deng ◽  
Qingsong Huang ◽  
Yanlin Xie ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Xiang Huang ◽  
...  

Two-phase boiling in advanced microchannel heat sinks offers an efficient and attractive solution for heat dissipation of high-heat-flux devices. In this study, a type of reentrant copper microchannels was developed for heat sink cooling systems. It consisted of 14 parallel Ω-shaped reentrant copper microchannels with a hydraulic diameter of 781μm. Two-phase pressure drop characteristics were comprehensively accessed via flow boiling tests. Both deionized water and ethanol tests were conducted at inlet subcooling of 10°C and 40°C, mass fluxes of 125–300kg/m2·s, and a wide range of heat fluxes and vapor qualities. The effects of heat flux, mass flux, inlet subcoolings and coolants on the two-phase pressure drop were systematically explored. The results show that the two-phase pressure drop of reentrant copper microchannels generally increased with increasing heat fluxes and vapor qualities. The role of mass flux and inlet temperatures was dependent on the test coolant. The water tests presented smaller pressure drop than the ethanol ones. These results provide critical experimental information for the development of microchannel heat sink cooling systems, and are of considerable practical relevance.


Author(s):  
Han Wang ◽  
Qincheng Bi ◽  
Linchuan Wang ◽  
Haicai Lv ◽  
Laurence K. H. Leung

An experiment has recently been performed at Xi’an Jiaotong University to study the wall temperature and pressure drop at supercritical pressures with upward flow of water inside a 2×2 rod bundle. A fuel-assembly simulator with four heated rods was installed inside a square channel with rounded corner. The outer diameter of each heated rod is 8 mm with an effective heated length of 600 mm. Experimental parameters covered the pressure of 23–28 MPa, mass flux of 350–1000 kg/m2s and heat flux on the rod surface of 200–1000 kW/m2. According to the experimental data, it was found that the circumferential wall temperature distribution of a heated rod is not uniform. The temperature difference between the maximum and the minimum varies with heat flux and/or mass flux. Heat transfer characteristics of supercritical water in bundle were discussed with respect to various heat fluxes. The effect of heat flux on heat transfer in rod bundles is similar with that in tubes or annuli. In addition, flow resistance reflected in the form of pressure loss has also been studied. Experimental results showed that the total pressure drop increases with bulk enthalpy and mass flux. Four heat transfer correlations developed for supercritical pressures water were compared with the present test data. Predictions of Jackson correlation agrees closely with the experimental data.


Author(s):  
Liang-Han Chien ◽  
Han-Yang Liu ◽  
Wun-Rong Liao

A heat sink integrating micro-channels with multiple jets was designed to achieve better heat transfer performance for chip cooling. Dielectric fluid FC-72 was the working fluid. The heat sink contained 11 micro-channels, and each channel was 0.8 mm high, 0.6 mm wide, and 12 mm in length. There were 3 or 5 pores on each micro-channel. The pore diameters were either 0.24 or 0.4 mm, and the pore spacing ranged from 1.5 to 3 mm. In the tests, the saturation temperature of cooling device was set at 30 and 50°C, and the volume flow rate ranged from 9.1 to 73.6 ml/min per channel (total flow rate = 100∼810 ml/min). The experimental result showed that heat transfer performance increased with increasing flow rate for single phase heat transfer. For heat flux between 20 and 100 kW/m2, the wall superheat decreases with increasing flow rate at a fixed heat flux. However, the influence of the flow rate diminished when the channels are in two phase heat transfer regime. Except for the lowest flow rate (9.1 ml/min), the heat transfer performance increased with increasing jet diameter/spacing ratios. The best surface had three nozzles of 0.4 mm diameter in 3.0 mm jet spacing. It had the lowest thermal resistance of 0.0611 K / W in the range of 200 ∼ 240 W heat input.


Author(s):  
Shailesh N. Joshi ◽  
Danny J. Lohan ◽  
Ercan M. Dede

Abstract The heat transfer and fluid flow performance of a hybrid jet plus multipass microchannel heat sink in two-phase operation is evaluated for the cooling of a single large area, 3.61 cm2, heat source. The two-layer branching microchannel heat sink is evaluated using HFE-7100 as the coolant at three inlet volumetric flow rates of 150, 300, and 450 ml/min. The boiling performance is highest for the flow rate of 450 ml/min with the maximum heat flux value of 174 W/cm2. Critical heat flux (CHF) was observed at two of the tested flow rates, 150 and 300 ml/min, before reaching the maximum operating temperature for the serpentine heater. At 450 ml/min, the heater reached the maximum allowable temperature prior to observing CHF. The maximum pressure drop for the heat sink is 34.1 kPa at a heat flux of 164 W/cm2. Further, the peak heat transfer coefficient value of the heat sink is 28,700 W/m2 K at a heat flux value of 174 W/cm2 and a flow rate of 450 ml/min. Finally, a validated correlation of the single device cooler is presented that predicts heat transfer performance and can be utilized in the design of multidevice coolers.


2016 ◽  
Vol 366 ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Bei Chen Zhang ◽  
Qing Lian Li ◽  
Yuan Wang ◽  
Jian Qiang Zhang

Two-phase pressure drop fluctuations during flow boiling in a single mini-channel were experimentally investigated. Degassed water was tested in circular cross section mini-channels with the hydraulic diameter of 1.0 mm at liquid mass fluxes range of 21.19-84.77 kg m-2 s-1 and heat fluxes of 0~155.75 kW m-2. Effects of heat flux and mass flux on pressure drop fluctuations were discussed based on the time and frequency domain analysis of the measured pressure drop. Two types of fluctuations were identified, which are the incipient boiling fluctuation (IBF) and the explosive boiling fluctuation (EBF) respectively. The IBF is a low frequency low amplitude fluctuation, which relates to the bubble dynamics when incipient boiling occurs. It is sensitive to the thermal and flow conditions. With the increase of heat flux and mass flux, the IBF is suppressed. The EBF is a low frequency high amplitude fluctuation, which occurs near the critical heat flux.


Author(s):  
Jessica Sheehan ◽  
Avram Bar-Cohen

IR thermography of the heated wall for the two-phase flow of FC-72 in microgap channels provides explicit evidence of the quality-driven M-shaped variations in the two-phase microgap heat transfer coefficients. Data obtained from a 210μ microgap channel, operated with an FC-72 mass flux of 195 and 780 kg/m2-s and asymmetric heat fluxes of 28 W/cm2 to 35 W/cm2 are presented and discussed.


Author(s):  
S. G. Singh ◽  
S. P. Duttagupta ◽  
A. M. Kulkarni ◽  
B. P. Puranik ◽  
A. Agrawal

With the reduction in size of electronic devices, the problem of efficient cooling is becoming more and more severe. Boiling heat transfer in microchannels is fast emerging as a promising solution to the problem. In the present work, microchannels were fabricated on a silicon wafer. A chrome-gold micro-heater was integrated and characterized on the other side of the wafer. The change in resistance of the micro-heater in the temperature range of 20 °C – 120 °C was found to be within 10%. Deionized water was used as working fluid in microchannel. The single-phase pressure drop across the microchannel was found to increase linearly with increasing flow rate in confirmation with conventional laminar flow theory. Also, the pressure drop decreases with an increase in heat input due to a reduction in viscosity. The study was extended to two phase flow with flow rate and heat flux as the control parameters. The onset of two phase flow, at a given heat flux, with a decrease in flow rate, can be identified by the departure of linear pressure drop to non-linearity; this point was also confirmed through visual observation. In two-phase region of flow, pressure drop was found to increase initially, passes through a maximum and then decreases, with a decrease in flow rate. The experiments are performed for several heat fluxes. Both the onset of two phase and maximum pressure drop in the two phase region shifts to higher flow rates with an increase in heat input. Such detailed experimental results seem to be missing from the literature and are expected to be useful for modeling of boiling heat transfer in microchannels. Another pertinent observation is presence of instability in two-phase flow. It was found that at higher flow rate and heat flux instability in two-phase flow was more. An attempt to record these instabilities was made and preliminary data on their frequency will be presented. This study may help to choose suitable operating conditions for a microchannel heat sink for use in electronics cooling.


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