Design and testing of a heat pipe cooled thermionic energy convertor

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Thermodynamic performance evaluation of an air-air heat pipe heat exchanger

“…The work proposed by Grover [2] includes theoretical analysis and presents results of experiments carried out on stainless steel heat pipes with a wire mesh wick and sodium, lithium and silver as working fluids. As a result, these devices began to be used in applications such as in rotary heat exchanger [3], waste heat recovery systems in automobiles [4] and in hospitals [5], latent heat storage systems [6][7][8][9], energy storage in wind power systems [10], aeroponic system [11], nuclear reactor [12,13], thermionic converters [14,15], and electronics cooling applications [16]. As a result, these devices began to be used in applications such as in rotary heat exchanger [3], waste heat recovery systems in automobiles [4] and in hospitals [5], latent heat storage systems [6][7][8][9], energy storage in wind power systems [10], aeroponic system [11], nuclear reactor [12,13], thermionic converters [14,15], and electronics cooling applications [16].…”