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Heat Pipe Science and Technology, An International Journal

年間 4 号発行

ISSN 印刷: 2151-7975

ISSN オンライン: 2151-7991

EFFECTIVENESS OF COMBINED SUBCOOLER-CAPILLARY BLOCKER DEVICE IN LHP FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS

巻 6, 発行 3-4, 2015, pp. 155-165
DOI: 10.1615/HeatPipeScieTech.2016016774
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要約

The critical condition of reliable and stable operation of a loop heat pipe is complete condensation of a working fluid in a condenser with subsequent subcooling of the liquid before entering in a compensation chamber. Usually, the final part of the condenser operates as a subcooler. The design of the loop heat pipe with separated subcooler acting also as a vapor/gas bubbles stopper (capillary blocker) is proposed. The subcooler-capillary blocker (SCB) is installed after the condenser. Its purpose is to capture noncondensed vapor bubbles, subcool the working fluid below the saturation temperature, and to eliminate a countercurrent in the loop heat pipe. A model of an SCB was developed and thermal-hydraulic calculations of the efficiency of the proposed SCB in comparison with a smooth-wall subcooler (geometric efficiency coefficient) were performed. Influence of the mass flow rate (Reynolds number), diameter of the channel, and of the porosity of a capillary structure on the SCB efficiency has been investigated. Emission in a vacuum was used as the boundary condition (modeling of space environment). It was proposed to use aluminum or silver fibers as an SCB capillary structure material to facilitate heat exchange (subcooling) and to minimize the pressure drop in SCB. The LHPs working fluid ammonia, typical of space applications, was selected for analysis.

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