Experimental investigation of PCM based round pin-fin heat sinks for thermal management of electronics: Effect of pin-fin diameter

Adeel Arshad; Hafiz Muhammad Ali; Shahab Khushnood; Mark Jabbal

doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.10.008

Experimental investigation of PCM based round pin-fin heat sinks for thermal management of electronics: Effect of pin-fin diameter

Adeel Arshad
, Hafiz Muhammad Ali^*
, Shahab Khushnood
, Mark Jabbal

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This experimental study presents the parametric analysis for the round pin-finned heat sinks subjected to steady heat densities for effective and reliable cooling of mobile electronic devices. Phase change material (PCM) namely paraffin wax is adopted as energy storage material and aluminum made round pin-fins are selected as thermal conductivity enhancers (TCEs). A constant volume fraction of 9% of round pin-fins is selected with pin diameter of 2mm,3mm and 4mm and input heat flux was provided from 1.6kW/m² to 3.2kW/m² with an increment of 0.4kW/m². Three volume fractions of ψ=0.0,ψ=0.5 and ψ=1.0 of PCM amount are poured in each configuration of pin-finned heat sinks. A heat sink with no fin is chosen as a reference heat sink to quantify the effect of PCM and TCEs. The thermal performance of PCM filled heat sinks are analyzed to explore the effect of volumetric fractions of PCM, heat densities, pin diameter on latent heat phase, enhancement in operation time, heat capacity and thermal conductance. Three reference set point temperatures (SPTs) are chosen and results have evidenced that a 3mm pin diameter heat sink has best thermal performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	861-872
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Volume	117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.10.008
State	Published - Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Enhancement ratio
Heat Sink
Heat capacity
Paraffin wax
Phase change material
Round pin-fin
Set point temperatures
Thermal conductance
Thermal conductivity enhancers

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Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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