Control of Cold Plate Temperature in a Pumped Two Phase Flow

Author(s):  
Alok Sinha ◽  
Larry W. Byrd

Abstract One of the main goals of a pumped two-phase flow cooling system is to ensure that there is a two phase flow at the exit of the cold plate so that the heat transfer coefficient remains very high. To decrease the mass flow rate but still prevent dryout, there is a motivation to maintain the exit quality at roughly 0.6 to 0.7 for an unknown time-varying heat load. In this paper, a simple output feedback control algorithm is proposed to achieve this goal. A nonlinear model based on the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy is used. Steady state solutions and their stability are analyzed. Results from numerical simulations with R134a flow corroborate the validity of the proposed novel feedback control algorithm.

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Ravigururajan

Microchannel surfaces, often machined to 20 to 1000 μm in width and depth, are employed in high-heat-flux applications. However, a large number of variables, control the two-phase flow heat transfer coefficient. The pressure, the surface heat flux, and the mass flux significantly affect the thermal transport. Experiments were conducted on a setup that was built for testing microchannel heat exchanges. The parameters considered in the study are power input: 20 to 300 W, volume flow rate: 35 to 300 ml/min, quality: 0 to 0.5, inlet subcooling: 5 to 15°C. The results indicate that the heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are functions of the flow quality, the mass flux, and, of course, the heat flux and the related surface superheat. The heat transfer coefficient decreases from a value of 12,000 W/m2-K to 9000, W/m2-K at 80°C, when the wall superheat is increased from 10 to 80°C. The coefficient decreases by 30 percent when the exit vapor quality is increased from 0.01 to 0.65.


2011 ◽  
Vol 282-283 ◽  
pp. 702-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Zhi Zhang ◽  
Ying Ai Jin ◽  
De Yuan Su ◽  
Qing Gao

With the increasing degree of the enhancement of engine, engine cooling system design is considered particularly important. This paper used an established three-dimensional model of an engine water jacket to study, and used UDF function in the two-phase flow of the CFD, describe the mathematical model and simulation the engine at different operating conditions, and get the water jacket flow rate transfer thermal process. Finally, the results of the relationship between the engine water jacket of boiling heat transfer and flow velocity have been studied, and the importance of using two-phase flow model has been summarized.


Author(s):  
Ronald Akbar ◽  
Jong Taek Oh ◽  
Agus Sunjarianto Pamitran

Various experiments have been conducted on the heat transfer coefficient of two-phase flow boiling in mini channel tubes. In addition to obtaining data on the heat transfer coefficients through experiments, many researchers have also compared their experimental data using existing correlations. This research aims to determine the characteristics of the heat transfer coefficient of refrigerant R290 from the data used by processing and knowing the best heat transfer coefficient correlation in predicting the experimental data so that the results are expected to be a reference for designing a heat exchanger or for further research. The experimental data predicted is the two-phase flow boiling in a horizontal tube 3 mm diameter, with the mass flux of 50-180 kg/m2s, heat flux of 5-20 kW/m2, saturation temperature of 0-11 °C, and vapor quality of 0-1. The correlation used in this research is based on the asymptotic flow model, where the model is a combination of the nucleate and convective flow boiling mechanisms. The results show an effect of mass flux and heat flux on the experimental heat transfer coefficient and the predicted R290 heat transfer coefficient with asymptotic correlations had a good and similar result to the experimental data.


Author(s):  
Bharath Ramakrishnan ◽  
Cong Hiep Hoang ◽  
Sadegh Khalili ◽  
Yaser Hadad ◽  
Srikanth Rangarajan ◽  
...  

Abstract High Performance Computing (HPC) data centers demand cutting edge cooling techniques like direct contact liquid cooling (DCLC) for safe and secure operation of their high-power density servers. Two-phase flow boiling heat transfer technique is widely believed to address the heating problem posed by HPC racks. In this study, a novel liquid cooled cold plate containing microchannel and jet impingement arrangement was characterized for its two-phase flow and thermal behavior. A sophisticated bench top setup involving a mock package was developed to carry out the experiments in a controlled fashion using a dielectric fluid Novec/HFE-7000. Two-phase flow boiling in cold plates which has a strong dependency on surface phenomena was carefully studied at various levels of inlet pressure, subcooling, flow rates and heat flux levels to the mock package. A resistance network was invoked to determine the average heat transfer coefficient at various exit qualities estimated by energy balance equation. While the results make it evident that, the high heat generating components can be kept at operable conditions using the two-phase cooling; a deeper insight at the outcomes could pave way for more energy efficient cold plate designs. The experiment was carried out with a large heated surface of 6.45 cm2 and maximum dissipated heat flux was around 63.6 W/cm2 corresponding to chip power of 410 W. Base temperature was kept below 75 oC and pressure drop did not exceed 21 kPa.


Author(s):  
Junnosuke Okajima ◽  
Shigenao Maruyama ◽  
Hiroki Takeda ◽  
Atsuki Komiya ◽  
Sangkwon Jeong

This paper describes a novel cooling system to be applied in cryosurgery. An ultrafine cryoprobe has been developed to treat small lesions which cannot be treated by conventional cryoprobes. The main problem of the ultrafine cryoprobe is the reduction of the heat transfer rate by the small flow rate due to the large pressure drop in a microchannel and the large ratio of the surface area to the volume. In order to overcome these problems, we utilized boiling heat transfer in a microchannel as the heat transfer mechanism in the ultrafine cryoprobe. The objectives of this paper are to develop an ultrafine cryoprobe and evaluate its cooling characteristics. The ultrafine cryoprobe has a co-axial double tube structure which consists of inner and outer stainless steel tubes. The outer and inner diameters of the outer tube are 0.55mm and 0.3mm, respectively. The outer and inner diameters of the inner tube are 0.15mm and 0.07mm, respectively. The inner tube serves as a capillary tube to change the refrigerant from liquid state to two-phase flow. Furthermore, two-phase flow passes through the annular passage between the inner and out tube. The hydraulic diameter of the annular passage is 0.15mm. Furthermore, HFC-23 (Boiling point is −82.1°C at 1atm) is used as the refrigerants. The temperature of the ultrafine cryoprobe was measured. The lowest temperatures were −45°C in the insulated condition and −35°C in the agar at 37°C (which simulates in vivo condition). Furthermore, the frozen region which is generated around the ultrafine cryoprobe was measured 5mm from the tip of cryoprobe at 120s, and resulted to be 3mm in diameter. Moreover, the change of the refrigerant state is calculated by using the energy conservation equation and the empirical correlations of two-phase pressure drop and boiling heat transfer. As a result, the refrigerant state in the ultrafine cryoprobe depends on the external heat flux. Finally, the required geometry of the ultrafine cryoprobe to make high cooling performance is evaluated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henryk Bieliński ◽  
Jarosław Mikielewicz

Computer cooling using a two phase minichannel thermosyphon loop heated from horizontal and vertical sides and cooled from vertical sideIn the present paper it is proposed to consider the computer cooling capacity using the thermosyphon loop. A closed thermosyphon loop consists of combined two heaters and a cooler connected to each other by tubes. The first heater may be a CPU processor located on the motherboard of the personal computer. The second heater may be a chip of a graphic card placed perpendicular to the motherboard of personal computer. The cooler can be placed above the heaters on the computer chassis. The thermosyphon cooling system on the use of computer can be modeled using the rectangular thermosyphon loop with minichannels heated at the bottom horizontal side and the bottom vertical side and cooled at the upper vertical side. The riser and a downcomer connect these parts. A one-dimensional model of two-phase flow and heat transfer in a closed thermosyphon loop is based on mass, momentum, and energy balances in the evaporators, rising tube, condenser and the falling tube. The separate two-phase flow model is used in calculations. A numerical investigation for the analysis of the mass flux rate and heat transfer coefficient in the steady state has been accomplished.


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