scholarly journals Thermal Performance and Numerical Simulation of the 1-Pyrene Carboxylic-Acid Functionalized Graphene Nanofluids in a Sintered Wick Heat Pipe

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6542
Author(s):  
Alireza Esmaeilzadeh ◽  
Mahyar Silakhori ◽  
Nik Nazri Nik Ghazali ◽  
Hendrik Simon Cornelis Metselaar ◽  
Azuddin Bin Mamat ◽  
...  

Experimental and numerical modeling of a heat pipe included with a phase change heat transfer was developed to assess the effects of three parameters of nanofluid, heat pipe inclination angles, and input heating power. Distilled water (DW) and 1-pyrene carboxylic-acid (PCA)-functionalized graphene nanofluid (with concentrations of 0.06 wt%) were used as working fluids in the heat pipe. A computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was developed for evaluation of the heat transfer and two-phase flow through the steady-state process of the heat pipe. It was found that inclination significantly affects the heat transfer of the heat pipe. Maximum increment of thermal performance in the heat pipe reached 49.4% by using 0.06 wt% of PCA-functionalized graphene as working fluids. The result associated with this comparison indicates that the highest deviation is less than 6%, consequently confirming that the CFD model was successful in reproducing the heat and mass transfer processes in the DW and nanofluids charged heat pipe. The results of CFD simulation have good agreement between predicted temperature profiles and experimental data.

2016 ◽  
Vol 369 ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Nemec ◽  
Zuzana Kolková ◽  
Milan Malcho

Heat pipe is well known device which is used to heat transfer phase-change of working fluid. Pulsating heat pipe (PHP) is special type of heat pipe which heat transfer by pulsating movement of working fluid. Article deals about operating activity and thermal performance measurement of this special heat pipe. Operating activity visualization of PHP was performed with PHP made from glass. The two types of PHPs were made. The first PHP has internal diameter of tube 1 mm, second PHP has internal diameter of tube 1.5 mm and both PHPs have eleven meanders. The working fluids used in PHP were water and Fluorinert FC-72. These fluids were chose for their different thermo-physical properties and the visualization observe formation of liquid and vapour phase working fluid during filling process and working operation.Next, the article describes thermal performance measurement of PHP depending on working fluid amount and heat source temperature. Measurement was performed with PHP made from copper tube with inner diameter 1.5 mm curved to the twenty one meanders and filled with water. The results give us image about formation and distribution of working fluid in pulsating heat pipe and about influence of working fluid amount on the heat transfer ability of pulsating heat pipe.


Author(s):  
Pramod R. Pachghare ◽  
Ashish M. Mahalle

The closed loop pulsating heat pipe (CLPHP) is a passive two-phase heat transfer device, patented by Akachi (1990). Due to its excellent features, PHP has been considered as one of the promising technologies for electronic cooling, heat exchanger, etc. This paper presents an experimental study shows the effect of inclination angle on the thermal performance of CLPHP, which consist of 10 turns of copper tubes having inner and outer diameter 2 mm and 3.6 mm respectively. The equal lengths of evaporator, condenser and adiabatic sections are 50 mm each. Different working fluids are used as R-134a, Methanol and Water. For all experimentations, an optimum filling ratio was maintained 50% by volume. The thermal performance have been investigated with different inclination angles (viz. 0°, 20°, 40°, 60° and 90°) at various heat input from 5 to 50W in the steps of 5W. The thermal resistance (which is inversely proportional to thermal performance) of CLPHP at various heat input are plotted for different working fluids. The result shows that, the thermal resistance decreases as heat input increases. But at low heat input i.e. upto 25W, the thermal resistance decreases rapidly and the PHP performance is more sensitive to the inclination angle whereas high heat input i.e. above 25W, the thermal resistance decreases smoothly and less independent to the inclination angle. In all inclination angles, vertical bottom heat position (at 90°) of CLPHP gives best thermal performance due to presence of gravity force. At all inclination angles, the working fluid R-134a show best thermal performance followed by methanol and water.


Author(s):  
Mehdi Taslimifar ◽  
Maziar Mohammadi ◽  
Ali Adibnia ◽  
Hossein Afshin ◽  
Mohammad Hassan Saidi ◽  
...  

Homogenous dispersing of nanoparticles in a base fluid is an excellent way to increase the thermal performance of heat transfer devices especially Heat Pipes (HPs). As a wickless, cheap and efficient heat pipe, Pulsating Heat Pipes (PHPs) are important candidates for thermal application considerations. In the present research an Open Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe (OLPHP) is fabricated and tested experimentally. The effects of working fluid namely, water, Silica Coated ferrofluid (SC ferrofluid), and ferrofluid without surface coating of nanoparticles (ferrofluid), charging ratio, heat input, and application of magnetic field on the overall thermal performance of the OLPHPs are investigated. Experimental results show that ferrofluid has better heat transport capability relative to SC ferrofluid. Furthermore, application of magnetic field improves the heat transfer performance of OLPHPs charged with both ferrofluids.


2015 ◽  
Vol 821-823 ◽  
pp. 452-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsolt Toth Pal ◽  
Ya Fan Zhang ◽  
Ilja Belov ◽  
Hans Peter Nee ◽  
Mietek Bakowski

– Thermal contact resistances between a silver metallized SiC chip and a direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate have been measured in a heat transfer experiment. A novel experimental method to separate thermal contact resistances in multilayer heat transfer path has been demonstrated. The experimental results have been compared with analytical calculations and also with 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation results. A simplified CFD model of the experimental setup has been validated. The results show significant pressure dependence of the thermal contact resistance but also a pressure independent part.


Author(s):  
Jian Qu ◽  
Huiying Wu ◽  
Ping Cheng

In this paper, an experimental investigation was conducted on the thermal performance of a silicon-based micro-pulsating heat pipe (SMPHP) using FC-72 and R113 as working fluids. The SMPHP, covering an area of 46 × 19mm2, consisted of fourteen meandering trapezoidal channels with a hydraulic diameter of 352μm. The effects of gravity, filling ratio, and working fluids on the overall thermal resistance of the SMPHP were discussed. Experimental results show that gravity had an impact on the thermal performance of the SMPHP, and self-sustained oscillation could not be achieved at the horizontal orientation. The SMPHP worked as a true pulsating device when the filling ratio varied from 30% to 65%. For FC-72 and R113, there was an optimal filling ratio of 55% and 41%, respectively, for the best thermal performance of the SMPHP. As compared to the SMPHP with 0% filling ratio (or charged with the air), the thermal resistances of the SMPHP charged with FC-72 (at 55% filling ratio) and R113 (at 41% filling ratio) were decreased maximally by 7.24°C/W (or 56.5%) and 7.51 °C/W (or 59.7%), respectively. It is also found that the R113 was favorable for the operation of the SMPHP at lower power inputs, while FC-72 was favorable at relatively higher power inputs.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasim Hasan ◽  
Mohd Arif ◽  
Mohaideen Abdul Khader

The computational fluid dynamic (CFD) is an influential method for measuring Heat transfer profiles for typical meteorological years. CFD codes are managed by numerical algorithms that may undertake fluid glide headaches. CFD offers the numerical results of partial differential equations with main airflow and heat transfer in a discretized association. The complex fluid glide and the warmth transfer publications worried in any heat exchanger can be determined with the help of the CFD software program (Ansys Fluent). A study states and framework which implicitly rely on the computational fluid dynamics, which is being formulated for computing the efficiency-related parameters of the thermal part and the capability of the EATHE system for cooling. A CFD simulation program is being used for modeling the system. The framework is being validated with the help of the simulation set-up. A thermal model was developed to analyze thermal energy accumulated in soil/ground for the purpose of room cooling/heating of buildings in the desert (hot and dry) climate of the Bikaner region. In this study, the optimization of EATHE design has been performed for finding the thermal performance of straight, spiral, and helical pipe earth air tunnel heat exchanger and Heat transfer rate for helical pipe was found maximum among all designs.


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