Ground experimental investigations into an ejected spray cooling system for space closed-loop application |
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Institution: | 1. School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China;2. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China |
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Abstract: | Spray cooling has proved its superior heat transfer performance in removing high heat flux for ground applications. However, the dissipation of vapor–liquid mixture from the heat sur-face and the closed-loop circulation of the coolant are two challenges in reduced or zero gravity space environments. In this paper, an ejected spray cooling system for space closed-loop application was proposed and the negative pressure in the ejected condenser chamber was applied to sucking the two-phase mixture from the spray chamber. Its ground experimental setup was built and exper-imental investigations on the smooth circle heat surface with a diameter of 5 mm were conducted with distilled water as the coolant spraying from a nozzle of 0.51 mm orifice diameter at the inlet temperatures of 69.2 ?C and 78.2 ?C under the conditions of heat flux ranging from 69.76 W/cm2 to 311.45 W/cm2, volume flow through the spray nozzle varying from 11.22 L/h to 15.76 L/h. Work performance of the spray nozzle and heat transfer performance of the spray cooling system were analyzed;results show that this ejected spray cooling system has a good heat transfer performance and provides valid foundation for space closed-loop application in the near future. |
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Keywords: | Ejected spray cooling system Evaluation models Ground experiment Heat transfer performance High heat flux Space closed-loop |
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