Experimental Validation of Phase Change Material Cooling Performance Integrated into Finned Heat Sink

2021 ◽  
Vol 1039 ◽  
pp. 274-280
Author(s):  
Hussein Salah Mahdi ◽  
Jalal Muhammad Jalil ◽  
Asim Sahib Allawy

The aim of this study is to analyze the phase change material cooling performance integrated into heat sink experimentally. a paraffin wax as phase change material is used in this experiment and it placed under the heat sink with thickness 30mm , various power input at 11W,13W and 15W used in this experiment to generate heat at different levels also several fan speed at 15m/s,2.5m/s and 3.4m/s. the surface temperature of the heat sink is monitored over the time to evaluate the phase change material thermal performance . From the results ,temperature drop and the time lag in case of without PCM compared to with PCM shows the effect of cooling of adding PCM under low and high speeds of heat removal. It found that inclusion of PCM into heat sink with forced convection shows high temperatures drop up to 18 °C.

2022 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 103882
Author(s):  
Adeel Arshad ◽  
Mark Jabbal ◽  
Hamza Faraji ◽  
Pouyan Talebizadehsardari ◽  
Muhammad Anser Bashir ◽  
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Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1389
Author(s):  
Nadezhda S. Bondareva ◽  
Mohammad Ghalambaz ◽  
Mikhail A. Sheremet

Nowadays, the heat transfer enhancement in electronic cabinets with heat-generating elements can be achieved using the phase change materials and finned heat sink. The latter allows to improve the energy transference surface and to augment the cooling effects for the heat sources. The present research deals with numerical analysis of phase change material behavior in an electronic cabinet with an energy-generating element. For an intensification of heat removal, the complex finned heat sink with overall width of 10 cm was introduced, having the complicated shape of the fins with width of 0.33 cm and height H = 5 cm. The fatty acid with melting temperature of 46 °C was considered as a phase change material. The considered two-dimensional challenge was formulated employing the non-primitive variables and solved using the finite difference method. Impacts of the volumetric heat flux of heat-generating element and sizes of the fins on phase change material circulation and energy transference within the chamber were studied. It was shown that the presence of transverse ribs makes it possible to accelerate the melting process and reduce the source temperature by more than 12 °C at a heat load of 1600 W/m. It should also be noted that the nature of melting depends on the hydrodynamics of the melt, so the horizontal partitions reduce the intensity of convective heat transfer between the upper part of the region and the lower part.


Author(s):  
Ali Deriszadeh ◽  
Filippo de Monte ◽  
Marco Villani

Abstract This study investigates the cooling performance of a passive cooling system for electric motor cooling applications. The metal-based phase change materials are used for cooling the motor and preventing its temperature rise. As compared to oil-based phase change materials, these materials have a higher melting point and thermal conductivity. The flow field and transient heat conduction are simulated using the finite volume method. The accuracy of numerical values obtained from the simulation of the phase change materials is validated. The sensitivity of the numerical results to the number of computational elements and time step value is assessed. The main goal of adopting the phase change material based passive cooling system is to maintain the operational motor temperature in the allowed range for applications with high and repetitive peak power demands such as electric vehicles by using phase change materials in cooling channels twisted around the motor. Moreover, this study investigates the effect of the phase change material container arrangement on the cooling performance of the under study cooling system.


Author(s):  
D. Jaya Krishna

Abstract In the present study, the numerical investigation has been performed for a phase change material (PCM)-based longitudinal fin heat sink. The fins are taken as an integral part of the heat sink and are made up of aluminum. The PCM considered in the study is RT44HC. Heat is transferred to the heat sink through its horizontal base. In order to simulate the melting behavior of the PCM, volume of fluid model has been used. To attain the best configuration with optimum operational time, Taguchi method has been used followed by analysis of melt fraction and maximum base temperature. The optimized heat sink configuration with maximum operational time has been obtained at the critical temperatures of 54.8 °C, 63 °C, and 72.6 °C.


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