Title

Spray Cooling With Ammonia On Micro-Structured Surfaces

Keywords

Electronics cooling; Enhanced surfaces; Heat transfer; Thermal management; Two-phase

Abstract

Experiments were performed to investigate spray cooling enhancement on micro-structured surfaces. Surface modification techniques were utilized to obtain micro-scale indentations and protrusions on the heater surfaces. A smooth surface was also tested to have baseline data for comparison. Tests were conducted in a closed loop system with ammonia using RTI's vapor atomized spray nozzles. Thick film resistors, simulating heat source, were mounted onto 1cm x 2cm heaters and heat fluxes up to 500 W/cm2 (well below critical heat flux (CHF) limit) were removed. Two nozzles each spraying 1 cm2 of heater area used 96 ml/cm2-min (9.7 gal/in2-hr) liquid and 13.8 ml/cm2-s (11.3 ft3/in2-hr) vapor flow rate with only 48 kPa (7 psi) pressure drop. Results for micro-structured surfaces with protrusions and indentations offered significant performance enhancement of 115% and 52% increase in heat transfer coefficient over smooth surface respectively. ©2008 IEEE.

Publication Date

9-9-2008

Publication Title

2008 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM

Number of Pages

290-295

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2008.4544282

Socpus ID

50949108156 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/50949108156

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