Volume 3: Combustion, Fire and Reacting Flow; Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems; Heat Transfer in Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing; Heat and Mass Transfer in Biotechnology; Low Temperature Heat Transfer; Environmental Heat Transfer; Heat Transfer Education; Visualization of Heat Transfer · 2009 · 11 citations · 0 references
EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringMechanical EngineeringHeat TransferMultiphase FlowThermal AnalysisHeat ExchangersHeat Transfer ModelingHeating SystemsThermal DesignThermal ManagementThermal Performance AssessmentFabricationFlow BalanceHeat Pipe TechnologyHeat PipesLoop Heat PipesProperty TestingThermal ConductivityThermal Testing
Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) are two-phase devices that can passively transport heat over long distances relative to other passive two phase systems such as heat pipes. Most of the art of LHP fabrication is in the primary and secondary wick. The manufacturing steps for an LHP are described, including the tests to validate the LHP during manufacture. The tests include wick property testing (pore size, permeability, and thermal conductivity), secondary wick testing, and parallel flow balance design and testing. The required tests after the LHP is fabricated include low power starts, shutdown through compensation chamber heating, unbalanced condenser temperature tests, transient testing — both power cycling and condenser temperature changes, and maximum power tests.