Liquid cooling with phase change has been demonstrated to be a very efficient technique for thermal management of electronics because it has the potential to achieve high heat transfer coefficients compared to single phase liquid cooling. Previous studies on liquid immersion cooling with fluorocarbons have shown the effectiveness of boiling enhancement structures in lowering boiling incipience, raising the critical heat flux, and reducing evaporator size. Two-phase thermosyphons are an alternative to liquid immersion cooling, where phase change liquid cooling can be implemented within a closed-loop device. The present study involves a two-phase thermosyphon with boiling enhancement structure in the evaporator, which is subjected to subatmospheric pressures for lowering the saturation temperature of the working fluid. The objective of the present research is to provide a detailed understanding of the effect of liquid-fill level on boiling of water with enhancement structures at subatmospheric pressures. The study will take into account the influence of system pressure and enhancement structure geometry on the boiling heat transfer. Experiments were performed at three different pressures, , , and , using a stacked enhancement structure with three different geometries (one, four, and six layers), corresponding to three different liquid-fill levels (fill ratios of 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9). The results are compared with a base line study on subatmospheric pressure boiling from a plain surface at similar liquid-fill levels.
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Boiling of Water at Subatmospheric Conditions With Enhanced Structures: Effect of Liquid Fill Volume
Aniruddha Pal,
Aniruddha Pal
Mechanical Engineer
Etch Products Business Group
, Applied Materials Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Yogendra Joshi
Yogendra Joshi
Professor
G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30309
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Aniruddha Pal
Mechanical Engineer
Etch Products Business Group
, Applied Materials Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Yogendra Joshi
Professor
G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
, Atlanta, GA 30309J. Electron. Packag. Mar 2008, 130(1): 011010 (10 pages)
Published Online: February 12, 2008
Article history
Received:
January 16, 2007
Revised:
July 11, 2007
Published:
February 12, 2008
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Pal, A., and Joshi, Y. (February 12, 2008). "Boiling of Water at Subatmospheric Conditions With Enhanced Structures: Effect of Liquid Fill Volume." ASME. J. Electron. Packag. March 2008; 130(1): 011010. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2837523
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