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External Condenser Design for Cooling of Rotating Heat Pipe in MEA Application
Technical Paper
1999-01-1360
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Rotating Heat Pipe (RHP) technolog y is being developed for high speed (>20 krpm) regimes of electric motor/generator cooling. The motivation for this research is the potential application of the high speed RHPs for the thermal management of advanced rotating electrical machines. The passive nature and relatively simple features of this device are attractive for the removal of waste heat from the rotors of electric machines. Interesting air-cooling experimental results of two high speed RHPs designed, fabricated and tested at AFRL are presented here. Emphasis is made on external heat removal concepts useful for cooling the RHP condenser in order to be successful in promoting this technology to real world problems.
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Ponnappan, R. and Leland, J., "External Condenser Design for Cooling of Rotating Heat Pipe in MEA Application," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1360, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1360.Also In
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