4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Mechanical Engineering:
Title:
Fundamental Experiments of a Vapor Chamber Fabricated on
a Plastic Board
(Comparison with a Thermosyphon)
Authors:
Fumihiko Hideyama, Shuto Nonoshita, Yasushi Koito,
Toshio Tomimura
Abstract: A
vapor chamber is a flat-plate heat pipe and is used as a
heat spreader to spread the heat flux from a small heat
source to a large heat sink. Latent heat of evaporation
and condensation of a working fluid is utilized inside
the vapor chamber, and therefore a large quantity of
heat is transported with a small temperature drop. In
the previous study, a capillary-wick vapor chamber was
fabricated and fundamental experiments were conducted.
It utilizes the capillary force of a wick structure to
pump back the condensate from a condensation section to
an evaporator section. On the other hand in the present
study, the thermosyphon type vapor chamber which
utilizes gravity is fabricated on the surface of the
polycarbonate board. Then fundamental experiments are
conducted to compare with the previous capillary-wick
vapor chamber and confirm the influence of gravity. The
vapor chamber works without any external power in both
cases. Water is used as a working fluid. In experiments,
the heat is applied by the heater attached to the bottom
of the vapor chamber while the top of the vapor chamber
is cooled by the cooling water circulated by the
thermostatic bath. The transient responses and the
steady-state temperature distributions of the vapor
chamber are obtained by changing the heat input and the
amount of the working fluid. Moreover, a thermal circuit
model is made and their effective thermal conductivities
are also evaluated. From the experimental results, the
heat transfer characteristics of the capillarywick and
the thermosyphon type vapor chamber are compared, and
then the discussion is made on the optimum thermal
design of the polymer-based vapor chamber.
Keywords: Polymer Vapor
Chamber, Latent Heat Transfer, Capillary-wick Structure,
Thermosyphon, Effective Thermal Conductivity
Pages:
108-112