Experimental research on heat dissipation by microchannel phase transition

Abstract Given the characteristics of some missile-borne electronic equipment, such as narrow space, high heat flux, limited power supply, and high reliability in a short time, the idea of phase change heat dissipation is proposed, absorbing a large amount of heat from electronic components through the vaporization phase change of working fluid, to ensure its working performance. The heat dissipation device is a cold plate for micro-channel phase change heat dissipation. Because it is difficult to study phase-change heat dissipation by simulation calculation, the experimental scheme is designed. A set of experimental systems that can not only simulate the working mode of the cold plate in high altitude and low-pressure environments but also carry out multi-parameter exploration is built with conventional and simple devices and instruments. Through extensive and repeated experiments, it has been concluded that: for the same mass of phase change working medium, the smaller the pressure difference between the working medium in the cold plate and the cold plate outlet is, the longer the temperature control time of the cold plate is. When the surface heat load of the cold plate is 400 W, the mass of the phase change working medium is 270 g, and the cold plate temperature control time is up to 10 min. When the working medium of phase transformation is 35% ethanol solution, the cooling and temperature equalization effect of a cold plate are the best, and the maximum temperature of the cold plate surface is stable between 70±1°C for a long time.