Conference Dates

June 22-27, 2014

Abstract

Nanoparticles-assembled bi-porous structure is newly proposed and its potential to enhance the boiling heat transfer is evaluated in order to develop a new cooling device toward 300W/cm2 of on-vehicle inverter cooling. In order to assemble nanoparticles on to a heat transfer surface as a thin layer, a boiling adhesion method (BAM) is originally introduced in which, water or water/ethanol solution with mono-dispersed nanoparticles is dropped or sprayed onto a high temperature surface, and then the nanoparticles deposit onto the heat transfer surface during the boiling. In addition to that, it is expected that boiling bubbles can produce micro or milli scale of pores at the same time. In order to evaluate the applicability of the nanoparticles-assembled bi-porous structures, droplet behavior on a high temperature surface is visualized with a high speed camera The experimental results show that the boiling adhesion method can produce multi-scale pore structures composed of nano-scale pores and micro-scale pores and that the water droplet intensely boils and evaporates on a high temperature of a wall with nanoparticles-assembled bi-porous layer even under Leidenfrost conditions, which proves that the nanoparticles-assembled bi-porous structure enables the increase in both the critical heat flux and the boiling heat transfer in a nucleate boiling regime

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