Volume 5: Innovative Solutions for Energy Transitions: Part IV

Advanced Pool Boiling Heat Sinks Manufactured by Selective Laser Melting and Effect of Heat Treatment Tianqing W?, Poh Seng Le?, John Mathe?, Chen-Nan Su?, Beng Loon A?

Abstract

The rapid development of modern electronic devices urges an increasing need for better heat transfer techniques. Pool boiling heat transfer has great potential as it can provide high heat transfer capacity during the phase change of the working fluid. With the help of additive manufacturing technology, complex designs of pool boiling heat sinks can be achieved with selective laser melting (SLM) and they have shown great performances. In this study, heat sinks with one-layer and two-layer porous fin arrays are manufactured by SLM method using AlSi12 alloy powders and heat treated at 450℃ in nitrogen. Their pool boiling performances have shown great enhancement compared with plain copper heat sinks and the heat treated heat sinks have shown the best result both in heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical heat flux (CHF). The visualization data is collected during the experiments and used to analyze the heat transfer mechanism.

Keywords pool boiling, two-phase heat transfer, porous structure, selective laser melting