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A thermoelectric cooler coupled with a gravity-assisted heat pipe: An analysis from heat pipe perspective
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In this article, a gravity-assisted heat pipe (GAHP) was proposed to attach on the TEC hot side to improve the cooling performance of TEC cooling performance, and a mathematical model was established to analyze the effect of refrigerant filling ratio, temperature and air flow rate.About:
This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2018-01-01. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: TEC & Thermoelectric cooling.read more
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A novel ultra-thin flattened heat pipe with biporous spiral woven mesh wick for cooling electronic devices
TL;DR: In this paper, a biporous spiral woven mesh wick was developed to enhance the thermal performance of an ultra-thin flattened heat pipe for cooling high heat flux electronic devices, and the working fluid flow characteristics of the wick were analyzed theoretically.
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An efficient optimization and comparative analysis of ammonia and methanol heat pipe for satellite application
TL;DR: In this article, a satellite heat pipe operated with the ammonia and methanol is investigated for the multi-objective optimization, and results are obtained in the form of Pareto-optimal points.
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Performance optimization of cascaded and non-cascaded thermoelectric devices for cooling computer chips
TL;DR: The results showed that the self-cooling framework can successfully cool down the hotspot at an acceptable temperature with not only no need for additional electrical power requirements but also for reducing the non-uniformity in the chip temperature distribution.
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Energy saving potential of using heat pipes for CPU cooling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the cooling performance of the heat pipe embedded heatsinks, including the surface temperature, the average temperature of base, the thermal resistance and the power consumption, and the impact of different arrangements of heat pipes on the temperature distribution was also investigated.
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Novel experiments on COP improvement of thermoelectric air coolers
TL;DR: In this article, cooling characteristics of different number jointed TEM (in the same input power) are analyzed and discussed in this paper, and two new techniques based on the modification of the popular rectangular-fin heat sink are proposed.
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A general correlation for flow boiling in tubes and annuli
K.E. Gungor,R.H.S. Winterton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new general correlation for forced convection boiling has been developed with the aid of a large data bank consisting of over 4300 data points for water, refrigerants and ethylene glycol, covering seven fluids and 28 authors.
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Thermoelectric generators: A review of applications
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of thermoelectric generators is presented, as well as the future applications which are currently being studied in research laboratories or in industry and the main purpose of this paper is to clearly demonstrate that, almost anywhere in industry or in domestic uses, it is worth checking whether a TEG can be added whenever heat is moving from a hot source to a cold source.
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Recent development and application of thermoelectric generator and cooler
TL;DR: In this article, the basic concepts of the thermoelectric and discusses its recent material researches about the figure of merit are discussed, and the recent applications of the thermal generator, including the structure optimization, low temperature recovery, the heat resource and its application area.
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A generalized heat transfer correlation for louver fin geometry
Yu Juei Chang,Chi-Chuan Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a generalized heat transfer correlation for louver fin geometry is developed with the aid of a large data bank consisting of 91 samples of louvered fin heat exchangers with different geometrical parameters.