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One‐Piece Stainless‐Steel 3D Printed Minichannel Evaporators using Flow Boiling Carbon Dioxide
Author(s) -
Kneer Aron,
Wirtz Michael,
Bozkurt Marcel Can,
Solohub Alexander,
Laufer Timo,
Hauf Markus,
Altmannsberger Thomas,
Bieg Hermann,
Barbe Stephan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.202000069
Subject(s) - materials science , boiling , refrigerant , conical surface , evaporator , boiling point , nuclear engineering , composite material , mechanical engineering , engineering , heat exchanger , chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry
New concepts are required for high‐performance minichannel evaporators with low mass and reduced size involved in the cooling of cylindrical or conical surfaces. The development of one‐piece stainless‐steel evaporators using flow boiling CO 2 for the cooling of conical copper test specimens heated by a foil heater element is presented. The specimens mimic a mobile cooling device used in high‐energy and particle physics. The stainless‐steel evaporators were manufactured with a state‐of‐the‐art 3D stainless‐steel printer via selective laser melting. The computer‐aided design and the construction of this new type of evaporators are described. A dedicated two‐phase accumulator controlled loop filled with liquid CO 2 was developed, it allowed for operating four parallel connected evaporators. Cooling efficiency and manufacture reproducibility were experimentally investigated by applying different thermal loads and refrigerant mass flows.