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Heat Transfer Performance of Microgroove Back Plate Heat Pipes with Working Fluid and Heating Power

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Micro heat pipes (MHP) cooling is one of the most efficient solutions to radiate heat for high heat flux electronic components in data centers. It is necessary to improve heat transfer performance of microgroove back plate heat pipes. This paper discusses about influence on thermal resistance through experiments and numerical simulation with different working fluids, filling ratio and heat power. Thermal resistance of the CO2 filled heat pipe is 14.8% lower than the acetone filled heat pipe. In the meantime, at the best filling ratio of 40%, the CO2 filled heat pipe has the optimal heat transfer behavior with the smallest thermal resistance of 0.123 K/W. The thermal resistance continues to decline but the magnitude of decreases is going to be minor. In addition, this paper illustrates methods about how to enhance heat pipe performance from working fluids, filling ratio and heat power, which provides a theoretical basis for practical applications.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this research through the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 8202034) and the USTB-NTUT Joint Research Program.

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  1. Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yanpeng Wu, Jie Jia & Dongmin Tian

  2. Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air Conditioning Engineering, Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, 10608, China

    Yew Khoy Chuah

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Wu, Y., Jia, J., Tian, D. et al. Heat Transfer Performance of Microgroove Back Plate Heat Pipes with Working Fluid and Heating Power. J. Therm. Sci. 29, 982–991 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-020-1336-9

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