Herein, a horizontal CPU cooler with a pulsating heat pipe (PHP) for cooling desktop computer was developed. In the experiment, an electric heating block was used to heat a copper plate to simulate the heating process of CPUs. The cooling system consists of a cooling fan and a pulsating heat pipe cooler. The influence of cooling wind speed and heat load on heat transfer performance, start-up performance, and temperature uniformity of the PHP cooler was analyzed by controlling variable method. The wind speed was set to be 0 m/s, 0.1 m/s, 0.3 m/s, 0.5 m/s and 0.7 m/s respectively. The contour plots were used to analyze the uniformity of temperature distribution due to cooler. The results show that the start-up of the PHP led to a decrease in temperature of CPUs. As the cooling wind speed increased, the start-up time of the php dropped, the start-up temperature dropped, and its stability was also improved. The operation at different cooling wind speeds also changed the start-up mode of the PHP. The start-up performance was best at cooling wind speed of 0.3 m/s. The contour plot for temperature showed that the temperature distribution of the PHP cooler became more uniform with increased cooling wind speeds. There was excellent temperature uniformity at the cooling wind speeds of 0.3 m/s and 0.7 m/s. When the cooling wind speed was 0.7 m/s, the minimum average thermal resistance was 0.51 K/W.
To meet the requirement of electronic heat dissipation with high heat flux, a kind of heat dissipation device using pulsating heat pipe (PHP) for CPU heat dissipation was put forward. The heat transfer performance and surface temperature distribution of the radiator are analyzed by analyzing the wall temperature distribution and the distribution of the evaporator and condenser of the PHP. The experimental results show that the change of wind speed has obvious influence on the operation of the PHP radiator. The surface temperature distribution of the PHP radiator is very uniform, which is especially beneficial for CPU cooling. The heat transfer performance of the PHP is better, and the minimum average thermal resistance is 0.19 k/W. In addition, there is no drying phenomenon when the temperature reaches about 120 °C, which indicates that the pulsating heat pipe has a very high heat transfer limit.
With the continuous development of industrial technology, the safety and efficiency of thermal equipment work in related industries and industrial fields are facing many problems. First, with the improvement of integrated level, the size of electronic components is getting smaller and smaller, and the heat load per unit area is increasing, which makes the traditional heat dissipation method difficult to meet the requirements; second, with the increase of energy-saving pressure, the temperature difference of low-temperature waste heat recovery is reduced, and the traditional heat exchange equipment is difficult to meet the working requirements. The pulsating heat pipe has the characteristics of small volume and excellent heat transfer performance. In view of the heat transfer performance of the pulsating heat pipe, we designed the gas-liquid pulsating heat pipe heat exchanger and studied its heat transfer performance, which has been verified to be effective.
At present, LED lighting is gradually replacing the traditional lighting and becoming the fourth generation of light source. In the process of LED lighting, a large part of electric energy is converted into heat energy. If it can not dissipate heat in time, the device efficiency will be reduced or even damaged. Therefore, the heat dissipation problem of LED needs to be solved. By testing and recording the working temperature of the existing LED lighting radiator in different positions, the performance of the radiator was compared and tested. The experiment shows that the radiator works best when the light source is downward, and the temperature difference between the top and the bottom of the radiator is the smallest in this case, and the temperature at the top of the radiator is higher than that at the bottom in the working process. When the position of the LED lighting radiator changes, the heat dissipation performance of the top and bottom of the radiator changes.
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has the advantages of high energy efficiency, clean, pollution-free, fast start-up and noise-free, but its thermal management problems still restrict the development and practical application of PEMFC. This paper analyzes the important influence of heat management on the working performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell, and summarizes the structure principle and effect evaluation of thermal management system using heat pipe under the premise of simply summarizing the shortcomings of the thermal management system using conventional cooling method. By expounding the working principle and characteristics of pulsating heat pipe, and from the perspective of PEMFC internal structure and technology, the feasibility of applying pulsating heat pipe to PEMFC thermal management system is analyzed, with a view to developing pulsating heat pipe-type PEMFC thermal management technology with compact structure and excellent performance.
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