A LOOP THERMOSYPHON FOR LIQUID COOLED MINICHANNELS HEAT SINK WITH PULSATE SURFACE HEAT FLUX

Abstract

The period operation of power electronic acts as switching element, where the power dissipated consists of pulses at certain duty cycle, the semiconductor temperature oscillates and varies as a waveform. In the present study, an experimental investigation was carried out for a loop thermosyphon order to evaluate the effect of pulsate surface heat flux on the single-phase buoyancy driven convection of ethylene glycol flow through a minichannels heat sink with hydraulic diameter 1.5 mm. An electric heater block is used to supply the heat flux to minichannels heat sink in a rectangle waveform. The study is done at different heat flux frequencies of 2.777×10-3 Hz, 8.333×10-4 Hz, 5.555×10-4 Hz and 4.166×10-4 Hz, while the heat flux amplitude (2 watt), Rayleigh number (1864) and duty cycle (50 %) are kept constant. The results revealed that for a range of the measured frequency for the complete power cycle and due to unsteady state operation conditions, the pulse heat flux pattern is close to a rectangle-wave, this generates the fluid outlet temperature pattern close to a triangle-wave. The fluid outlet temperature increases with the decreases of heat flux frequency and tends to reach to the fluid outlet temperature for a constant and continuous heat flux case. Due to closed-loop of thermosyphon, the fluid inlet temperature is changed in pattern like that the fluid outlet temperature change.

Keywords

• Loop Thermosyphon
• Natural Convection
• Minichannels Heat Sink
• Pulse Heat Flux
• Single-Phase Flow
• Ethylene Glycol

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