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Fabrication of a nanoporous membrane device for high heat flux evaporative cooling

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Sircar, Jay D
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Evelyn N. Wang.
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We investigated the experimental performance of a nanoporous membrane for ultra-high heat flux dissipation from high performance integrated circuits. The biporous evaporation device utilizes thermally-connected, mechanically-supported, high capillarity membranes that maximize thin film evaporation and high permeability liquid supply channels that allow for lower viscous pressure losses. The 600 nm thick membrane was fabricated on a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer, fusion-bonded to a separate wafer with larger liquid channels. Spreading effects and overall device performance arising from non-uniform heating and evaporation of methanol was captured experimentally. Heat fluxes up to 412 W/cm2, over an area of O.4x 5 mm, and with a temperature rise of 24.1 K from the heated substrate to ambient vapor, were obtained. These results are in good agreement with a high-fidelity, coupled fluid convection and solid conduction compact model, which was necessitated by computational feasibility, which incorporates non-equilibrium and sub-continuum effects at the liquid-vapor interface. This work provides a proof-of-concept demonstration of our biporous evaporation device. Simulations from the validated model, at optimized operating conditions and with improved working fluids, predict heat dissipation in excess of 1 kW/cm2 with a device temperature rise below 30 K, for this scalable cooling approach.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2017.
 
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-63).
 
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2017
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111931
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Mechanical Engineering.

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