Abstract:
A heat pipe including a sealed container having a pair of opposed sidewalls and a pair of ends, one of the ends being located below the other of the ends. A portion of one sidewall of the container is recessed from the remainder thereof adjacent the aforementioned one end, and is thermally conductive to provide a heat transfer surface inside of the container. A baffle located in the container has an edge spaced from the upper edge of the heat transfer surface to form an elongated aperture therewith. The baffle extends in the direction of the other end of the container and forms a reservoir with the sidewalls of the container.
Abstract:
Within a vaporization chamber which houses apparatus to be cooled (e.g., a transformer) a film of liquid flowing over a heated surface of said apparatus is evaporated thereby cooling the apparatus. The surface includes grooves which stabilize the distribution of a flowing liquid film so that all sections of the surface are maintained in a wetted condition by the flowing film thereby eliminating, or significantly reducing, the occurrence of dry, and therefore hot, spots on the surface. A vapor push pump within the vaporization chamber recirculates liquid so that the liquid can be redistributed as a flowing film over the aforesaid grooved surfaces. The use of a vapor push pump in combination with grooved evaporator surfaces, inter alia, enables significant efficiencies and economies respecting, among other things, the circulation rate of liquid coolant required.
Abstract:
In a surface condenser including a plurality of parallel tubes arranged in a plurality of parallel rows between an inlet and an outlet manifold for condensing a vaporous medium by a stream of coolant, freeze-up of the tubes is prevented and improved performance is provided by selectively finning the tubes. The tubes in the row adjacent the upstream end of the stream of coolant are finned along a section adjacent the outlet manifold. Rows progressively farther removed from the upstream end of the coolant are finned in sections located progressively closer to the inlet manifold. Sections located progressively closer to the inlet manifold are progressively longer. Accordingly, uniform flow of coolant on the outside surfaces of the tubes and a balanced flow of vaporous medium through the tubes are provided, and in addition contact between excessively low temperature coolant and tubes containing insufficient vapor is prevented.