Performance of Heat Pipe Utilized for Atmospheric Air Heating

Mohammed Mansur

Mechanical Department, College of Engineering, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2015.38125                

Abstract

The objective of the present experimental work is to investigate the performance of a wrapped screen heat pipe for atmospheric air heating to compare with the limits of this pipe. The experiment was conducted using copper pipe material and acetone as working fluid at different vapor temperatures. The testing also consists of a heater, a blower for heat removal (condenser), temperature measuring device, a vapor temperature probe, acetone charging system, and a vacuum pump. The copper outside diameterof the pipe is 0.022 m, with a total length of 0.6 m. The results showed that the pipe wall temperature (Tw) for a wrapped screen heat pipe has a rapid increase and takes 50 min to reach steady state at (Q = 63 W). The vapour temperature of working fluid increases as the heat load increases at constant air velocity. It was also been found that the range of vapour temperature deceases as the filling ratio increases that means the increasing of the filling ratio results the decrease of the maximum vapour temperature and the variation in the vapour temperature. The best recorded filling ratio is 0.6 which has the lowest vapour temperature at highest heat load. The maximum heat transport limit for this pipe is 80 W and the maximum temperature difference for air is 5^。C.

 

Keywords

Performance, Wrapped Screen, Heat Pipe, Acetone, Air Velocity, Heat Load, Filling Ratio, Temperature Difference

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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