Heat pipe based systems - Advances and applications

By Hussam Jouhara, A. Chauhan, T. Nannou, Sulaiman Almahmoud, B. Delpech, Luiz Carlos Wrobel. 2017

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Abstract Heat pipes are becoming increasingly popular as passive heat transfer technologies due to their high efficiency. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art applications, materials and performance of current heat pipe devices. The paper is divided into four main parts; low temperature heat pipes, high temperature heat pipes, thermal modelling of heat pipes and discussion. The low and high temperature sections present an extended list with suitable working fluids and operating temperatures, along with their compatibility with casing materials. Furthermore, the sections focus on some of the most widespread industrial applications, such as solar, nanoparticles, Rankine cycles, nuclear, thermoelectric modules and ceramics, in which heat pipe technologies offer many key advantages over conventional practises. The third part of the paper consists of a thorough analysis of the thermal modelling side of heat pipes. Internal and external thermal modelling techniques, theories and methodologies are presented in this section, for various applications such as non-Newtonian fluids, nano-fluids, solar, geothermal, automotive, hybrid storage and nuclear systems. The final part of the paper discusses the limitations of heat pipes and the reasons why they are not implemented in more aspects of our lives. Operational limitations, cost concerns and the lack of detailed theoretical and simulation analysis of heat pipes are some of the point covered in this section. Finally, some of the recent and future developments in the field are discussed.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

• Comparative study of a concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with and without flat plate heat pipe (2019, background): “transport limitations that have to be considered during design including, continuum flow limit, sonic limit, capillary limit, entrainment limit, viscous limit and boiling limit [16].”
• Advancements and prospects of thermal management and waste heat recovery of PEMFC (2021, unknown): “2 [40,41].”
• Energy efficiency in industry: EU and national policies in Italy and the UK (2019, background): “There is extended scholarship literature on technological advancements to improve energy efficiency, most importantly, from various renewable energy sources [12e14], including the technology for industrial waste heat recovery [15,16].”
• The aluminium industry: A review on state-of-the-art technologies, environmental impacts and possibilities for waste heat recovery (2020, methodology): “They are among the most efficient methods of heat transfer [210].”