Thermal Modeling of Solar Still Coupled with Heat Pipes and Experimental Validation

Thermal performance of a solar cooker integrated vacuum-tube collector with heat pipes containing different refrigerants

A solar cooking system using vacuum-tube collectors with heat pipes containing a refrigerant as working fluid has been fabricated, and its performance has been analysed experimentally. The experiments were conducted during clear days in July and August of 2002 in Elazı g, Turkey under similar meteorological conditions for three refrigerants and water. Detailed temperature distributions and thei...

Experimental Analysis of a Vertical, Double-Effect Diffusion Solar Still

modeling of a basin type solar still and investigation of its heat transfer coefficient

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Experimental validation of an analytical model for predicting the thermal and hydrodynamic capabilities of flat micro heat pipes

An analytical model by Lefèvre and Lallemand (1) that couples a 2D hydrodynamic model for both the liquid and the vapor phases inside a flat micro heat pipe (FMHP) and a 3D thermal model of heat conduction inside the FMHP wall has been modified. It consists of superposing two independent solutions in order to take into account the impact of evaporation or condensation on the equivalent thermal ...

CAD-based Methods for Thermal Modeling of Coolant Loops and Heat Pipes

As air cooling of electronics reaches the limits of its applicability, the next generation of cooling technology is likely to involve heat pipes and singleor two-phase coolant loops (including perhaps loop thermosyphons, spray cooling, vapor compression refrigeration cycles, and loop heat pipes). These technologies are not suitable for analysis using 2D/3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) sof...