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Two-phase flow operational maps for multi-microchannel evaporators

Szczukiewicz, Sylwia  
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Borhani, Navid  
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Thome, John Richard  
2013
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

The current paper presents new operational maps for several different multi-microchannel evaporators, with and without any inlet restrictions (micro-orifices), for the two-phase flow of refrigerants R245fa, R236fa, and R1234ze(E). The test fluids flowed in 67 parallel channels, each having a cross-sectional area of 100 × 100 μm^2. In order to emulate the power dissipated by active components in a 3D CMOS CPU chip, two aluminium microheaters were sputtered onto the back-side of the test section providing a 0.5 cm^2 each. Without any inlet restrictions in the micro-evaporator, significant parallel channel flow instabilities, vapor back flow, and flow maldistribution led to high-amplitude and high-frequency temperature and pressure oscillations. Such undesired phenomena were then prevented by placing restrictions at the inlet of each channel. High-speed flow visualization distinguished eight different operating regimes of the two-phase flow depending on the tested operating conditions. Therefore, the preferred operating regimes can be easily traced. In particular, flashing two-phase flow without back flow appeared to be the best operating regime without any flow and temperature instabilities.

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DOI
10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2013.03.006
Web of Science ID

WOS:000321725100015

Author(s)
Szczukiewicz, Sylwia  
Borhani, Navid  
Thome, John Richard  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Volume

42

Start page

176

End page

189

Subjects

Two-phase refrigerant flow

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Silicon multi-microchannel evaporator

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Infra-red thermography

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Flow visualization

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Operating regime

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Operational map

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