Proposal, transient model, and experimental verification of loop heat pipe as heating device for electric-vehicle batteries

M Hashimoto, Y Akizuki, K Sato, A Ueno… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports design, fabrication, and experimental results of a loop heat pipe (LHP) as
a heating device for batteries of electric vehicles. Usually, LHPs are used as a cooling …

Development of a loop heat pipe with the 3D printed stainless steel wick in the application of thermal management

Z Hu, D Wang, J Xu, L Zhang - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
The 3D printed wicks, whose structural parameters could be controlled by changing the
distance between neighboring structural cylinders, were manufactured to experimentally …

Effect of heat load to a capillary starter pump on the thermal characteristics of a 2-m nitrogen cryogenic loop heat pipe

K Odagiri, X Chang, H Nagai, H Ogawa - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A thermal characteristic of a nitrogen-charged cryogenic loop heat pipe (CLHP) with an
auxiliary loop and a capillary starter pump (CSP) was investigated in this study. One of the …

Loop heat pipe design: an evaluation of recent research on the selection of evaporator, wick, and working fluid

S Ahmed, M Pandey, M Kawaji - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Since its invention nearly five decades ago, the loop heat pipe has revolutionized every
application requiring cooling or maintaining a constant temperature environment. In this …

Design optimization and experimental demonstration of a gravity-assisted cryogenic loop heat pipe

X Chang, T Yokouchi, K Odagiri, H Ogawa… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryogenic loop heat pipe (CLHP) is an efficient two-phase heat transfer device utilized for
cooling electronic components within a cryogenic operating temperature range (3–220 K) …

Thermal-fluidic transport characteristics of bi-porous wicks for potential loop heat pipe systems

P Kumar, B Wangaskar, S Khandekar… - Experimental Thermal and …, 2018 - Elsevier
With the miniaturization of electronic components, thermal management of electronic
devices and systems becomes a crucial problem. A Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) is a promising …

Heat transfer characteristics of flat evaporator loop heat pipe under high heat flux condition with different orientations

K Odagiri, H Nagano - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reports an experimental study on a high heat flux loop heat pipe (LHP) with
different orientations. A flat rectangular evaporator with a dimension of 51 mm (L)× 68 mm …

Investigation on liquid-vapor interface behavior in capillary evaporator for high heat flux loop heat pipe

K Odagiri, H Nagano - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reports a theoretical and experimental study on a thermo-fluid dynamics in an
evaporator of a loop heat pipe (LHP). A steady-state model that includes liquid–vapor …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study on global visualization of loop heat pipe with a flat disk-shaped evaporator

SC Zhao, ZK Zhang, RZ Zhao, ZC Liu, W Liu - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a prototype of a flat-disk global visualisation loop heat pipe was constructed,
and the two-phase working phenomenon in the system operation was elaborated. This study …

One-dimensional numerical study for loop heat pipe with two-phase heat leak model

L Zhou, ZG Qu, G Chen, JY Huang, JY Miao - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heat leak (HL) has a significant influence on the thermal performance of loop heat pipes. It is
difficult to measure the HL properties inside the evaporator through proper experiments. In …