Operating Characteristics of Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers Loop Heat Pipe with Polytetrafluoroethylene Wicks - Journal of Electronics Cooling and Thermal Control

JECTC > Vol.4 No.1, March 2014

Journal of Electronics Cooling and Thermal Control

Volume 4, Issue 1 (March 2014)

ISSN Print: 2162-6162 ISSN Online: 2162-6170

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Operating Characteristics of Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers Loop Heat Pipe with Polytetrafluoroethylene Wicks ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jectc.2014.41003 5,787 Downloads 8,693 Views Citations

Author(s)

Sho Okutani, Hosei Nagano, Shun Okazaki, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Hiroki Nagai

Affiliation(s)

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan.

ABSTRACT

This paper presents fabrication and testing of a multiple-evaporator and multiple-condenser loop heat pipe (MLHP) with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous media as wicks. The MLHP has two evaporators and two condensers in a loop heat pipe in order to adapt to various changes of thermal condition in spacecraft. The PTFE porous media was used as the primary wicks to reduce heat leak from evaporators to compensation chambers. The tests were conducted under an atmospheric condition. In the tests that heat loads are applied to both evaporators, the MLHP was stably operated as with a LHP with a single evaporator and a single condenser. The relation between the sink temperature and the thermal resistance was experimentally evaluated. In the test with the heat load to one evaporator, the heat transfer from the heated evaporator to the unheated evaporator was confirmed. In the heat load switching test, in which the heat load is switched from one evaporator to another evaporator repeatedly, the MLHP could be stably operated. The loop operation with the large temperature difference between the heat sinks was also tested. From this result, the stable operation of the MLHP in the various conditions was demonstrated. It was also found that a flow regulator which prevents the uncondensed vapor from the condensers is required at the inlet of the common liquid line when one condenser has higher temperature and cannot condense the vapor in it.

KEYWORDS

Loop Heat Pipe; Multiple Evaporators; Multiple Condensers; Thermal Control; Two-Phase Heat Transfer

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Okutani, S. , Nagano, H. , Okazaki, S. , Ogawa, H. and Nagai, H. (2014) Operating Characteristics of Multiple Evaporators and Multiple Condensers Loop Heat Pipe with Polytetrafluoroethylene Wicks. Journal of Electronics Cooling and Thermal Control, 4, 22-32. doi: 10.4236/jectc.2014.41003.

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