Heat Transfer Enhancement due to Bubble Pumping in FC-72 Near the Saturation Temperature

Abstract

The use of boiling heat transfer in the liquid immersion cooling of electronic components has always been hampered by the excessive superheat necessary to initiate nucleation in the fluorinated hydrocarbons used as dielectric cooling fluids. In an attempt to overcome some of these difficulties, an experimental study of the effects of nucleate pooling boiling, on the heat transfer from surface near the boiling surface was conducted. An experimental chamber was constructed which had a column of four horizontal wires spaced 2.5 cm vertically from each other. The lowest wire was progressively heated from the natural convection region through the nucleate boiling region. A study was made of the effects of the boiling wake from the lowest wire on heat transfer from the upper wires. Under certain conditions heat transfer enhancements of up to 30% were obtained.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA243558

Entities

People

  • Ali S. Eren

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boiling
  • Boiling Point
  • Computers
  • Conductivity
  • Convection
  • Diameters
  • Electronic Components
  • Engineering
  • Fluorinated Hydrocarbons
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Surface Temperature
  • Surface Tension
  • Thermal Conductivity

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
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