Characterization of a short microchannel device for surface cooling

The development of microchannel devices is expanded widely due to the demand for small scale electronic devices. In order to increase the capability of the electronic devices, high heat transfer performance with low energy consumption cooler is required. This study is focusing on the characterizatio...

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Main Authors: Kamaruzaman, Natrah, Saat, Aminuddin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61041/1/NatrahKamaruzaman2014_CharacterizationofaShortMicrochannelDevice.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61041/
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Language: English
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Summary:The development of microchannel devices is expanded widely due to the demand for small scale electronic devices. In order to increase the capability of the electronic devices, high heat transfer performance with low energy consumption cooler is required. This study is focusing on the characterization of new short microchannel for surface cooling purposes with the channel dimension of 800 µm wide, 200 µm length, 100 µm depth and total area of one cm2. Deionized water is used as the transport medium. A map of microchannel characteristics is plotted in term of average thermal resistance, pumping power, power supplied and mass flow rate of the fluid. From this mapping, it is shown that the thermal resistance decreased as the pumping power decreased. The results also show that the heat flux has not affected the value of pumping power. The different for each heat flux value is ranged between 3 to 4 %. The mapping presented in this study provides potential characteristics information and conditions to apply this particular microchannel for surface cooling.