IJSRD - International Journal for Scientific Research & Development| Vol.

3, Issue 01, 2015 | ISSN (online): 2321-0613

Recent Trends in Applications of Heat Pipes

Siddhanath V. Nishandar1 Aniket Kumar Sutar2 Sanmay Sanjay Ghatage3
1
Lecturer 2,3Student
1,2,3
Department of Mechanical Engineering
1,2
SITP, Yadrav, India, 416121
Abstract— Heat pipes have been used for last 5 decades in
many fields. Applications of heat pipes are increasing in III. STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION OF HEAT PIPES
number of sectors like heat transfer, renewable energy, According to their construction and structure heat pipes has
instrumentation industry etc. Due to increasing use of heat many types some of them are listed below:
pipes, in last few years there is a tremendous technical
research and innovations taking place. New technologies in A. Loop pulsating heat pipes [2]:
design, development and application of heat pipe are These are loop type heat pipes with provision of pulsation.
emerging. This paper provides overview of some newly These heat pipes are very efficient and have more capacity
developed technologies regarding heat pipes. Review on all to conduct heat.
these newly developed technologies is provided in this
paper. B. Refrigerating heat pipes (RHP) [3]:
Key words: Heat Pipe, ETC Refrigerating type heat pipes are the innovative structures of
heat pipe and have faster rates of heat transfer.
I. INTRODUCTION C. Coil-inserted rotating heat pipe [4]:
Following the depletion of fossil fuels and environmental These are rotating type of heat pipes and require external
degradation need of efficient technical equipments is power and also has coil like structure.
increasing. For heat transfer sector, efficient heat transfer
equipments are provided by using different active and IV. RECENT TRENDS IN APPLICATIONS OF HEAT PIPES
passive techniques like fins, pulsation etc. But for the
engineering problems where very high heat transfer rates are A. Cooling:
required, Heat pipes can be an effective solution. Heat pipes Heat pipes can be used as cooling circuits for different
are the efficient heat transfer devices that can be suitable for systems. Sarraf et al [5] invented a heat pipe assembly
many applications in industry. There also new trends set up device for the cooling of fuel cell. Use of heat pipes for
in the application of heat pipes. cooling fuel cell proved very efficient. Cooling of
electronics equipments by using heat pies is proved to be
II. HEAT PIPES very efficient method in electronic cooling. By using heat
Heat pipes are simple heat transfer devices having huge pipe for electronic cooling reduces the fan and blower
capacity to transfer heat over long distances. Heat pipes can requirement and also reduces power consumption require for
be constructed from millimeter to meter length range [1]. cooling.
Due to their simplicity and compactness they are becoming Control of heat has become important
more and more popular in mechanical as well as other consideration in the design of electronic equipments because
engineering applications. Heat pipes are used in heat of the recent trends in the electronic sector towards
transfer related applications for many decades. Depending increased miniaturization of components and device heat
on their use and utilsation sector, they can operate over a dissipation. There is a huge need of the devices or systems
wide range of temperatures with a high heat extraction capable of heat dissipiation from electronic equipments and
capacity. Heat pipes are very useful in a number of thermal management. The survey of US air force indicates
engineering applications such as electronic cooling, that more than 50 percent electronic system failure is
spacecraft thermal control, transportation systems, generally due to ill temperature control.[6] Hence by using
powerplants, automotive industry, permafrost stabilization, efficient heat pipes this problem can be overcome.
medical-related applications, energy equipments, solar B. Solar Water Heaters:
systems and production. Heat pipes and their applications in
Evacuated Tube Heat Pipe Solar Collectors are the examples
thermal management have been studied for decades. They
constitute an efficient, compact tool to dissipate substantial of application of heat pipes in solar water heater. Reheating
amount of heat. water in the recirculation loop, rather than preheating cold
water, requires a collector with a very low loss coefficient.
This is currently available only with evacuated-tube solar
collectors, as opposed to flat-plate solar collectors. Fig 2
shows the constructional details of the evacuated tube heat
pipe solar collector. Newly developed heat pipes can be
proved to be effective in domestic water heating.[7]

Fig 1: Construction and Operation Of Heat Pipe

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[5] D. B. Sarraf and J. T. Schwendemann, „Flat plate fuel

cell cooler‟, United States Patent Application No.
20030180589, September 25, 2003.
[6] L. T. Yeh, Review of Heat Transfer Technologies in
Electronic Equipment, Journal of Electronic
Packaging | Volume 117 | Issue 4, 1995
[7] E. Mathioulakis and V. Belessiotis, „A new heat-pipe
type solar domestic hot water system‟, Solar Energy,
72(1) (2002), 13–20.
[8] Faghri, Heat Pipe Science and Technology, first ed.
Taylor and Francis Group, Oxon, 1995

Fig. 2: Flat Plate Heat Pipe Solar Collector

C. Aerospace:
Use of heat pipes in for aerospace system is a new trend,
Heat pipes has two applications in aerospace first one is to
control temperature of satellite as well as to maintain
isothermalization of effects of solar radiation on the
mechanical structure of satellite.
And second one is to overcome distortion that may
occur due to overheating of various components present in
the satellite.[8]

V. CONCLUSIONS
It is observed that in last few years use of heat pipes in many
industrial applications is increasing with more innovative
technologies in heat pipes. Heat pipes are capable of fulfill
needs of modern heat transfer equipments like high volume
heat transfer rate, compactness, simple construction, good
handling, less maintenance etc. Hence heat pipes have huge
scope for application in various fields like electronics
cooling, solar heat collectors and aerospace engineering.
Due to all above purpose heat pipes are the
emerging technologies in the heat transfer of different
applications.

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