Study on the Heat Transfer Performance of Two Kinds Material for Microstructure Heat Exchanger

Abstract:

In order to verify the possibility that polymer materials for micro heat exchanger could replace metal materials, polymer micro heat exchangers are regarded as the study object. In terms of the experiments and the simulations by Flo EFD software, temperatures, pressures and speeds on micro heat exchanger made by aluminum and conductive plastic Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) were carried out analysis respectively. The results showed that the cooling capacities of micro-heat exchangers made by these two materials are quite the same. According to cooling capacity, manufacturing cost and weight, the micro heat exchanger made by conductive plastic is entirely possible to replace the existing metal heat exchanger.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 712-715)
• Pages: 1593-1599
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.712-715.1593
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Jian Zhuang, Da Ming Wu, Wei Wang, Ya Jun Zhang, Shi Bao Li, Wei Hu
• Keywords: Finned Heat, Heat Transfer Performance, Micro Heat Exchanger, Polymer Material

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