recently, the use of renewable energies has increased to  environmental pollution, limitation of fossil energy resources and energy security  one of the means that enable us to use such energies is fuel cells (fc). however, there are many problems  in the commercialization of fc from an economically and operation perspective. one of the most important problems is heat management. new heat pipes...

The current study investigates capillary-fed boiling of water from porous sintered powder wicks used in emerging high-effective-conductivity vapor chamber heat spreaders intended for management of hot spots with heat fluxes exceeding 500 W cm . Characterization of 1 mm thick wicks composed of 100 lm sintered copper particles is performed in a test facility which replicates the capillary feeding...

The current study investigates capillary-fed boiling of water from porous sintered powder wicks used in emerging high-effective-conductivity vapor chamber heat spreaders intended for management of hot spots with heat fluxes exceeding 500 W cm -2 . Characterization of 1 mm-thick wicks composed of 100 μm sintered copper particles is performed in a test facility which replicates the capillary feed...

Porous structures formed by sintering of powders, which involves material-bonding under the application of heat, are commonly employed as capillary wicks in two-phase heat transport devices such as heat pipes. These sintered wicks are often fabricated in an ad hoc manner, and their microstructure is not optimized for fluid and thermal performance. Understanding the role of sintering kinetics—an...

A novel system is developed for measuring the thermal resistance across thin layers of sintered copper wicks of varying porosity. Wicks to be tested are integrated into a passive vertical thermosyphon system and the resistance is measured for a series of input power levels. The wicks are sintered to a thermally conducting pedestal above a pool of de-ionized water and heated from below. The appa...

Porous wicks for use in a loop heat pipe were sintered from copper and Monel powder. These wicks were characterized in terms of their shrinkage, porosity, thermal conductivity, liquid permeability and maximum capillary pressure. The effect of fabrication parameters (particle size and sintering conditions) on these properties was studied. Shrinkage was found to increase with increasing sintering...

Aluminum vapor chambers have become an important component used to solve heat dissipation problems in lightweight applications due their low density and good transfer characteristics. In this paper, a new sintered aluminum powder wick is provided for chamber. An porous was using liquid phase sintering technology. Using acetone as the working medium, influence of structural parameters on its boi...

Heat pipes offer passive transport of heat over long distances without incurring a significant drop in temperature. Topological and microstructural details of the wick material embedded in a heat pipe help determine its thermal performance. A good understanding of pore-scale transport phenomena is crucial to enhancing heat pipe performance. In this study, pore-scale analysis of thin-film evapor...