Heat Pipe Performance Characteristics with Different Operating Fluids and Fill Ratio | ||
| Engineering Research Journal (Shoubra) | ||
| Volume 48, Issue 1, April 2021, Pages 16-29 PDF (1.58 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjsh.2021.227601 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdalla Gomaa1; Amir Zaki Youssef2; Wael Rady3; Ashraf Mimi Elsaid2 | ||
| 1Refrigeration and A/C Technology Dept., Faculty of Technology and Education, Helwan University, | ||
| 2Refrigeration and A/C Technology Dept., Faculty of Technology and Education, Helwan University | ||
| 3Curricula and Teaching Methods Dept., Faculty of Education, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The performance of the heat pipe depends largely on the thermofluid properties of the operating fluid used and its filling ratios, which is the focus of current work. In this paper, an experimental study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the heat pipe under different operating conditions. A smooth tube heat pipe with four operating fluids of different thermofluid properties, which are water, ethanol, methanol, and acetone were studied. Investigation parameters were examined at ranging for filling ratios and power inputs between 30-60% and 80-200W, respectively. The experimental main results showed that the best operating fluid that provided the higher performance was water at a 60% filling ratio and a power input of 200W%, while the lowest performance of the heat pipe was with acetone. The increase in heat input led to an increase in the condensation and evaporation heat transfer coefficients of the heat pipe by approximately 87.5% and 45.2%, respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Heat pipe; Power input; Fill ratio; Ethanol; Methanol; Acetone | ||
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