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An Experimental Study on Applying Miniature Loop Heat Pipes for Laptop PC Cooling L.Winston Zhang, Ph.D., P.E. Novark Technology Inc. www.novark.com.cn Email: [email protected] February 2016 1

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An Experimental Study on Applying Miniature Loop Heat Pipes for Laptop PC

Cooling

L.Winston Zhang, Ph.D., P.E.

Novark Technology Inc.www.novark.com.cn

Email: [email protected]

February 2016

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Outline

1. Introduction2. Experimental setup and parameters. 3. Application in PC cooling.4. Conclusions.5. Additional heat pipe applications.

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Introduction - Thermosyphon

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Introduction - Heat PipePassive Device that Moves Heat with low temperature difference

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Courtesy to Thermacore

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Introduction - Loop Heat Pipe

• Loop Heat Pipes for Electronics Cooling: Passive Orientation insensitive Flexible lines Potential alternative solution to remote cooling

1/4 inch DiameterEvaporator .060 OD x .010 inch

Transport Line

AluminumCondenser Plate

Compensation Chamber

EvaporatorTransport Line

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Flat LHP vs Conventional LHP

Condenser

Evaporator

Compensation chamber

Vapor line

Liquid line

Conventional loop heat pipe with cylinder shape evaporator, the

compensation chamber is separate from evaporator

Loop heat pipe with flat evaporator, its evaporator combined with the

compensation chamber

Compensation chamber

Advantages of Flat LHP: Evaporator in flat plate design reduces the contact resistance by applying directly to the chip surface; Evaporator combined with the compensation chamber simplifies the manufacturing process

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Research ObjectivesCompensation chamber

Liquid line

Wick structure

Vapor channel

Vapor line

Internal structure of miniature flat LHP with rectangular-shaped evaporator

Apply MFLHP to PC Cooling:(1) Operation of MFLHP : Analyzing the effect of diameter and length of connecting pipe to optimize the MFLHP heat sink design(2) Performance of MFLHP heat sink at different heat loads

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MFLHP Heat Sink inside a Laptop

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MFLHP for Laptop PC Cooling

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Experimental Parameters

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The thermocouple distribution schematic of the experiment setup for MFLHP

Experimental Parameters

liquid line

compensation chamber

the length of water cooling module is 100mm,circulating water temperature is 30°C

vapor line

sintered copper porouswick structure

Tci Tco

vapor channels

heating area(20×20mm)Th/Te

Trl

Experimental parameters of MFLHPs

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1、EFFECT OF THE LENGTH OF EVAPORATOR

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 900

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Heat Load (W)

Ther

mal

Res

ista

nce

(℃/W

) MFLHP in 50mm evaporator (Lp=300mm/Di=1.6mm) MFLHP in 60mm evaporator (Lp=300mm/Di=1.6mm) MFLHP in 40mm evaporator (Lp=300mm/Di=1.6mm)

Thermal resistance versus heat load for different length of connecting pipelines

The thermal performance improved with the increase of the length of the evaporator. In particular, when the length of the evaporator increased from 40mm to 50mm, the thermal resistance significantly declined. It revealed that there was a critical length of the evaporator for MFLHP to start up.

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2、EFFECT OF THE LENGTH OF CONNECTING PIPELINE

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

0.5

1.0

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2.0

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(℃/W

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Heat Load (W)

MFLHP in 60mm evaporator (Lp=400mm/Di=1.6mm) MFLHP in 60mm evaporator (Lp=300mm/Di=1.6mm) MFLHP in 60mm evaporator (Lp=200mm/Di=1.6mm)

The lowest thermal resistance belonged to the MFLHP of 300mm length of connecting pipeline. The second one was the case of 400mm length with a little thermal resistance increase, while the worst one appeared in the case of 200mm length. It indicated there was an optimal length of the connecting pipeline for the MFLHP operation. It could be interpreted by the pressure drop due to friction losses in liquid and vapor flow through the pipeline, which calculated by Darcy–Weisbach equation.

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Conclusion(1)By analyzing the temperature record of MFLHPs in different heat loads, it was concluded that the MFLHP can cope with the higher power dissipation rate and main stable heater temperature stable with the increase of heat loads, which met the laptop cooling requirements.

(2)The effect of lengths of the evaporator and the connecting pipe was investigated. The results showed that the lengths of the connecting pipe and the evaporator were the main factors affecting the MFLHP start-up. The thermal performance of MFLHP increased with the increase of the length of the evaporator. There is an optimal length of the connecting pipe for the MFLHP.

(3)A novel heat sink attached to a MFLHP was developed for cooling a CPU of laptop, the thermal design power (TDP) of which was 45W. The results showed the CPU heat sink with MFLHP maintained the average temperature of cooper block (dummy heater of CPU) at about 63.1°C in 45W. Compared to the conventional heat pipe solutions, MFLHP had better performance and offered the potential to make a lighter heat sink.

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Loop Heat Pipe GPU Heat Sink Design

graphics card

graphics processingunit (GPU)

an aluminum platefor mounting clips

fan

aluminum platewith a semicircularchannel

fin group 1

fin group 2

fin group 3

fin group 4

fin group 5

MFLHP

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Loop Heat Pipe GPU Heat Sink Design

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Test Results in Actual System

TDP=185wFan = 100%Room temp = 27.4℃ASIC Temp = 59 ℃

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Ultra-Thin Heat Pipe Technology

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Interior Structure of Ultra-thin Heat Pipe

Sinter

Fiber

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Novark’s Ultra-Thin Heat Pipe Patent

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Mass Production Cases Of Ultra-Thin HP-1

Spec. Structure CustomerD5*L139*T1.0 mm Sinter SD6*L199*T1.5 mm Sinter SD6*L165*T1.5 mm Sinter TD6*L145*T1.5 mm Sinter LD6*L198*T1.5 mm Sinter LD6*L272*T1.2 mm Sinter CD6*L192*T1.5 mm Sinter SD6*L253*T1.5 mm Sinter SD6*L236*T1.5 mm Sinter SD6*L189*T1.2 mm Sinter S

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Mass Production Cases Of Ultra-Thin HP-2

Spec. Structure CustomerD6*L157*T1.5 mm Sinter DD6*L181*T1.5 mm Sinter DD4*L97*T1.5 mm Sinter TD6*L154*T1.0 mm Sinter DD6*L110*T1.0 mm Sinter DD3*L109*T1.6 mm Fiber CD5*L85*T0.8 mm Fiber CD6*L195*T1.2 mm Fiber KD2*L113*T0.5 mm Fiber A

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Photos Of Mass Production Ultra-thin HP-1

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Photos Of Mass Production Ultra-thin HP-2

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Maximum Heat Transfer Rate Matrix

Type Diameter Thickness Heat pipe length (mm)

100 150 200 250Fiber 2 0.5 3W NA NA NA

Fiber 30.6 5W NA NA NA 1.6 7W 5W NA NA

Sinter 40.8 6W 3W NA NA 1.2 10W 5W NA NA

Sinter 51.0 12W 8W 5W NA 1.2 15W 10W 7W 4W

Sinter 6

1.2 15 W 13 W 7 W 5W 1.5 25 W 20W 15 W 10W 1.8 28W 25W 17 W 12W 2.0 32W 28W 22W 15W