scholarly journals Investigation of Enhanced Surface Spray Cooling

Author(s):  
Eric A. Silk ◽  
Jungho Kim ◽  
Ken Kiger

Experiments were conducted to study the effects of enhanced surfaces on heat transfer during spray cooling. The surface enhancements consisted of cubic pin fins, pyramids, and straight fins (uniform cross sectional straight fins) machined on the top surface of copper heater blocks. Each had a cross-sectional area of 2.0 cm2. Measurements were also obtained on a heater block with a flat surface for baseline comparison purposes. A 2×2 nozzle array was used with PF-5060 as the working fluid. Thermal performance data was obtained under nominally degassed (chamber pressure of 41.4 kPa) and gassy conditions (chamber with N2 gas at 101 kPa). The results show that the straight fins had the largest enhancement in heat flux. Critical heat flux (CHF) for this surface showed an increase of 55% in comparison to the flat surface for the nominally degassed condition. The cubic pin finned and pyramid surfaces provided slightly more than half the heat flux enhancement (30%–40% greater than the flat surface) of the straight fins. The gassy case showed that the straight fins again provided the largest enhancement (48%) in CHF relative to the flat surface. This was followed by the cubic pin fins, and pyramids which had increases of 31% and 18% respectively. No significant effect was observed in the surface temperature at which CHF occurs for either portion of the study.

Author(s):  
Eric A. Silk ◽  
Jungho Kim ◽  
Ken Kiger

Experiments were conducted to study the effects of enhanced surface structures on heat flux using spray cooling. The surface enhancements consisted of cubic pin fins machined on the top surface of copper heater blocks. The structure height, pitch, and width were parametrically varied. Each copper block had a projected cross-sectional area of 2.0 cm2. Measurements were also obtained on a heater block with a flat surface for baseline comparison purposes. A 2×2 nozzle array was used with PF-5060 as the working fluid. Thermal performance data was obtained under nominally degassed (chamber pressure of 41.4 kPa) and gassy conditions (chamber with N2 gas at 101 kPa) with a bulk fluid temperature of 20.5°C. Results for both the degassed and gassy cases show that structure width and separation distance have a dominant effect upon the heat transfer for the size ranges used. Cubic pin fin height had little impact upon heat flux. The highest critical heat flux (CHF) attained for any of the surfaces was 121 W/cm2, giving an enhancement of 51% relative to the flat surface case under nominally degassed conditions. The highest CHF in the gassy case was 149 W/cm2, giving an enhancement of 38% relative to the flat surface case.


Author(s):  
Eric A. Silk ◽  
Jungho Kim ◽  
Ken Kiger

Experiments were conducted to study the effects of spray trajectory angles on heat flux for flat and enhanced surface spray cooling. The surface enhancement consisted of straight fins machined on the top surface of a copper heater block. Spray cooling curves were obtained with the straight fin surface aligned both parallel (axial) and perpendicular (transverse) to the spray axis. Measurements were also obtained on a flat surface heater block for comparison purposes. Each copper block had a cross-sectional area of 2.0 cm2. A 2×2 nozzle array was used with PF-5060 as the working fluid. Thermal performance data was obtained under nominally degassed (chamber pressure of 41.4 kPa) conditions. Results show that the highest CHF in all cases was attained for a trajectory angle of 30° from the surface normal. Also, straight finned surfaces can enhance critical heat flux (CHF) as much as 75% (heat flux value of 140 W/cm2) relative to the vertical spray orientation for the analogous flat surface case.   This paper was also originally published as part of the Proceedings of the ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems.


2020 ◽  
pp. 349-349
Author(s):  
Nianyong Zhou ◽  
Hao Feng ◽  
Muhao Xu ◽  
Enhai Liu

In this study, a closed-loop spray cooling system using R134a as the working fluid was established. The heat transfer characteristics and influencing mechanism of transient spray cooling were studied. The transient spray cooling curve under quenching was built accurately. The results show that the vapor film suppressed time tsup is the main period that the spray cooling must pass through. The flow rate and the sub-cooling of R134a have little effect on the cooling rate but the critical heat flux, which are mainly affected by chamber pressure. The transient Jacob number Ja+ decreases with the increases of chamber pressure. As Ja+ decreases, the growth of vapor film is inhibited, then the tsup reduces in consequence. The surface temperature drop point and critical heat flux increases with the rise of chamber pressure. The maximum critical heat flux is 70.08 W/cm2in this experiment.


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Rau ◽  
Suresh V. Garimella ◽  
Ercan M. Dede ◽  
Shailesh N. Joshi

The effect of a variety of surface enhancements on the heat transfer achieved with an array of impinging jets is experimentally investigated using the dielectric fluid HFE-7100 at different volumetric flow rates. The performance of a 5 × 5 array of jets, each 0.75 mm in diameter, is compared to that of a single 3.75 mm diameter jet with the same total open orifice area, in single-and two-phase operation. Four different target copper surfaces are evaluated: a baseline smooth flat surface, a flat surface coated with a microporous layer, a surface with macroscale area enhancement (extended square pin–fins), and a hybrid surface on which the pin–fins are coated with the microporous layer; area-averaged heat transfer and pressure drop measurements are reported. The array of jets enhances the single-phase heat transfer coefficients by 1.13–1.29 times and extends the critical heat flux (CHF) on all surfaces compared to the single jet at the same volumetric flow rates. Additionally, the array greatly enhances the heat flux dissipation capability of the hybrid coated pin–fin surface, extending CHF by 1.89–2.33 times compared to the single jet on this surface, with a minimal increase in pressure drop. The jet array coupled with the hybrid enhancement dissipates a maximum heat flux of 205.8 W/cm2 (heat input of 1.33 kW) at a flow rate of 1800 ml/min (corresponding to a jet diameter-based Reynolds number of 7800) with a pressure drop incurred of only 10.9 kPa. Compared to the single jet impinging on the smooth flat surface, the array of jets on the coated pin–fin enhanced surface increased CHF by a factor of over four at all flow rates.


Author(s):  
Alyssa Recinella ◽  
Ankit Kalani ◽  
Satish G. Kandlikar

Flow boiling has the ability to remove high heat fluxes while maintaining a low wall superheat. Various researchers have developed enhanced microchannel geometries to improve the heat transfer performance of the system. Recently, a number of new studies have used the increasing flow cross-sectional area concept to overcome flow instabilities and record high CHF. In this work, a new geometry is experimentally investigated utilizing a radial cross-section, which provides the increasing fluid flow cross-sectional area in the flow direction. The flow boiling performance is studied using radial microchannels and water as the working fluid. Four different flow rates ranging from 120–400 mL/min are studied for this new geometry. Heat transfer performance (boiling curve and heat transfer coefficient) and pressure drop characteristics are discussed for all flow rates. Furthermore, the work is supported by high speed visualization of the bubble dynamics. The boiling performance obtained is compared to the existing data in the literature.


Author(s):  
Yongxian Guo ◽  
Jianyuan Jia ◽  
Weidong Wang ◽  
Shaorong Zhou

Based on the maximum CHF (critical heat flux) criterion, an optimal heat transfer criterion, which is called H criterion, was proposed. Experimental apparatuses were conducted. Distilled water was used as the working fluid. Three different DANFOSS nozzles with cone angles being 54°, 50° and 54° respectively were used. A 30×30mm2 square copper surface was used as the heated surface. Experimental results indicated that the volumetric fluxes were proportioned to P0.5, where P is the pressure drop across the nozzles. The optimal distance between the nozzles and the heated surface were derived. The results indicated that the optimal heat transfer appeared while the outside of the impellent thin spray film inscribed in the square heated surface. Based on the H criterion aforementioned, two DANFOSS nozzles of the three, with cone angles being 54° and 50° respectively, were used to study the temperature distribution of the heated surface while there were spray inclination angles during spray cooling experiments. Distilled water was also used impacting on the 30×30mm2 square copper surface aforementioned and a circular heated copper surface with diameters being 30mm respectively. The heat flux of the surface was kept in constant (about 26–35W/cm2). The inclination angles were 0°, 10°, 20°, 30°, 40° and 50° respectively. Three thermocouples imbedded in the heated surface were used to predict the grads of the temperature of the surface. Experimental results indicated that the temperature and the grads of the temperature of the surface increases first and then decreases with the increase of the inclination angle.


Author(s):  
Dong-Fang Chen ◽  
Da-Wei Tang ◽  
Xue-Gong Hu

Experiments were performed to investigate the flow structure and boiling heat transfer characteristics of water spray cooling on flat and microgrooved surfaces using a high-speed camera and a microscope. The heaters were made of cooper, with surface size of 2.0cm×7.4cm. Three orientations of the heater surfaces were selected: horizontal upward-facing, vertical, and horizontal downward-facing. A full-cone spray nozzle was placed normal to these heated surfaces. The heat transfer was directly measured using thermocouples within the heater. The experimental results show the bubble’s growth, coalescence along/between microgrooves, and break-up as wall heat flux reaches some higher values. It was found that the heat transfer for microgrooved surface is generally higher than that of flat surface at a given flow rate with the same surface orientation. The thermal performance of vertical microgrooved surface was highest at low temperatures; the thermal performance of the horizontal upward-facing was highest at higher wall temperature. The heat transfer performance for the horizontal downward-facing microgrooved surface had the highest critical heat flux (CHF).


Author(s):  
Sai Sujith Obuladinne ◽  
Huseyin Bostanci

Two-phase spray cooling has been an emerging thermal management technique offering high heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) and critical heat flux (CHF) levels, near-uniform surface temperatures, and efficient coolant usage that enables to design of compact and lightweight systems. Due to these capabilities, spray cooling is a promising approach for high heat flux applications in computing, power electronics, and optics. The two-phase spray cooling inherently depends on saturation temperature-pressure relationships of the working fluid to take advantage of high heat transfer rates associated with liquid-vapor phase change. When a certain application requires strict temperature and/or pressure conditions, thermophysical properties of the working fluid play a critical role in attaining proper efficiency, reliability, or packaging structure. However, some of the commonly used working fluids today, including refrigerants and dielectric liquids, have relatively poor properties and heat transfer performance. In such cases, utilizing binary mixtures to tune working fluid properties becomes an alternative approach. This study aimed to conduct an initial investigation on the spray cooling characteristics of practically important binary mixtures and demonstrate their capability for challenging high heat flux applications. The working fluid, water/2-propanol binary mixture at various concentration levels, specifically at x1 (liquid mass fraction of 2-proponal in water) of 0.0 (pure water), 0.25, 0.50, 0.879 (azeotropic mixture) and 1.0, represented both non-azeotropic and azeotropic cases. Tests were performed on a closed loop spray cooling system using a pressure atomized spray nozzle with a constant liquid flow rate at corresponding 20°C subcooling conditions and 1 Atm pressure. A copper test section measuring 10 mm × 10 mm × 2 mm with a plain, smooth surface simulated high heat flux source. Experimental procedure involved controlling the heat flux in increasing steps, and recording the steady-state temperatures to obtain cooling curves in the form of surface superheat vs heat flux. The obtained results showed that pure water (x1 = 0.0) and 2-propanol (x1 = 1.0) provide the highest and lowest heat transfer performance, respectively. At a given heat flux level, the HTC values indicated strong dependence on x1, where the HTCs depress proportional to the concentration difference between the liquid and vapor phases. The CHF values sharply decreased at x1≥ 0.25.


2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 1418-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dominic ◽  
J. Sarangan ◽  
S. Suresh ◽  
V.S. Devah Dhanush

An experimental investigation was conducted to study the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of an array of divergent straight minichannels (DSM) and was compared with straight minichannels (SM). The experiment was conducted in hydro dynamically developed and thermally developing laminar and turbulent regimes. The minichannel heat sink array consisted of 15 rectangular channels machined on a 30x30mm2and 11mm thick Aluminium substrate. Each minichannel was of 0.9mm width, 1.8mm pitch and a depth of 1.3 mm at entrance and 3.3 mm at exit for increasing the cross sectional area. DI water and 0.5% and 0.8% volume concentrations of Al2O3/water nanofluid were used as working fluids. The Reynolds number was varied from 1000 to 3500; and the heat flux was maintained as 45kW/m2. It was observed that the heat transfer performance of the DSM channel was higher than that of the SM channel.


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