Evaporators including a capillary wick and a plurality of vapor grooves and two-phase heat transfer systems including such evaporators
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
F28D-015/04
F28D-015/02
출원번호
US-0847146
(2013-03-19)
등록번호
US-9103602
(2015-08-11)
발명자
/ 주소
Kroliczek, Edward J.
Wrenn, Kimberly R.
Wolf, Sr., David A.
출원인 / 주소
Orbital ATK, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
TraskBritt
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초록▼
A two-phase heat transfer system includes an evaporator, a condenser, a vapor line, and a liquid return line. The evaporator includes a liquid inlet, a vapor outlet, and a capillary wick having a first surface adjacent the liquid inlet and a second surface adjacent the vapor outlet. The condenser in
A two-phase heat transfer system includes an evaporator, a condenser, a vapor line, and a liquid return line. The evaporator includes a liquid inlet, a vapor outlet, and a capillary wick having a first surface adjacent the liquid inlet and a second surface adjacent the vapor outlet. The condenser includes a vapor inlet and a liquid outlet. The vapor line provides fluid communication between the vapor outlet and the vapor inlet. The liquid return line provides fluid communication between the liquid outlet and the liquid inlet. The wick is substantially free of back-conduction of energy from the second surface to the first surface due to an increase in a conduction path from the second surface to the first surface and due to suppression of nucleation of a working fluid from the second surface to the first surface to promote liquid superheat tolerance in the wick.
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1. An evaporator comprising: a housing for containing a working fluid, the housing having a liquid inlet and a vapor outlet;a cylindrical capillary wick positioned within the housing and separating the liquid inlet and the vapor outlet, the capillary wick comprising a planar face;a plurality of vapo
1. An evaporator comprising: a housing for containing a working fluid, the housing having a liquid inlet and a vapor outlet;a cylindrical capillary wick positioned within the housing and separating the liquid inlet and the vapor outlet, the capillary wick comprising a planar face;a plurality of vapor grooves formed in an exterior portion of the capillary wick and located at an interface between the capillary wick and a wall of the housing, the plurality of vapor grooves each extending lengthwise along only a majority of the cylindrical capillary wick in a direction along an axis of the cylindrical capillary wick and transverse to the planar face of the capillary wick, wherein the planar face of the capillary wick is sized to entirely fill a portion of the housing adjacent the liquid inlet to require all of the fluid passing through the capillary wick from the liquid inlet to the plurality of vapor grooves to flow through the planar face; anda plurality of lateral grooves extending circumferentially around the cylindrical capillary wick, at least a portion of the plurality of lateral grooves disposed between two adjacent vapor grooves of the plurality of vapor grooves, each lateral groove of the plurality of lateral grooves being relatively smaller in size than each vapor groove of the plurality of vapor grooves. 2. The evaporator of claim 1, wherein the pores of the capillary wick have a substantially uniform size. 3. The evaporator of claim 1, wherein the evaporator is configured to operate in a terrestrial gravitational field. 4. The evaporator of claim 1, wherein the capillary wick is comprised of a metal. 5. The evaporator of claim 1, wherein each vapor groove of the plurality of vapor grooves is spaced from the planar face of the capillary wick. 6. The evaporator of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of vapor grooves and the plurality of lateral grooves comprises a plurality of microchannels. 7. The evaporator of claim 6, wherein the plurality of microchannels are formed by an etching process in the external surface of the capillary wick. 8. The evaporator of claim 1, further comprising a reservoir coupled to the housing for supplying liquid to the capillary wick. 9. The evaporator of claim 8, further comprising a screen positioned between the reservoir and the capillary wick such that liquid flow from the reservoir to the capillary wick flows through the screen. 10. The evaporator of claim 9, further comprising another screen positioned adjacent to the capillary wick and between the screen and the capillary wick such that the liquid flow from the reservoir to the capillary wick flows through the another screen. 11. The evaporator of claim 8, wherein the reservoir comprises a diffuser and a liquid return line, the diffuser for supplying liquid from the liquid return line into the reservoir. 12. The evaporator of claim 11, wherein the diffuser comprises a plurality of radial channels for supplying liquid from the liquid return line into the reservoir. 13. An evaporator comprising: a housing for containing a working fluid, the housing having a liquid inlet and a vapor outlet;a cylindrical capillary wick positioned within the housing and separating the liquid inlet and the vapor outlet, the capillary wick comprising a planar face;a plurality of vapor grooves formed at an interface between an exterior portion of the capillary wick and a wall of the housing, the plurality of vapor grooves each extending lengthwise along a majority of the cylindrical capillary wick in a direction along an axis of the cylindrical capillary wick and perpendicular to the planar face of the capillary wick, wherein the planar face of the capillary wick is sized to entirely fill a portion of the housing adjacent the liquid inlet to require all of the fluid passing through the capillary wick from the liquid inlet to the plurality of vapor grooves to flow through the planar face; anda plurality of lateral grooves extending circumferentially around the cylindrical capillary wick at each portion of the cylindrical capillary wick disposed between two adjacent vapor grooves of the plurality of vapor grooves, each lateral groove of the plurality of lateral grooves being relatively smaller in size than each vapor groove of the plurality of vapor grooves. 14. The evaporator of claim 13, wherein the plurality of vapor grooves comprise grooves in an external surface of the capillary wick. 15. The evaporator of claim 13, wherein the plurality of lateral grooves comprise grooves in the external surface of the capillary wick. 16. The evaporator of claim 13, wherein the plurality of vapor grooves comprise a plurality of microchannels. 17. The evaporator of claim 13, further comprising a reservoir coupled to the housing for supplying liquid to the capillary wick.
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