Manufacture and Test of a High Temperature Heat Pipe

Shung-Wen Kang; Huan-Ming Yeh; Meng-Chang Tsai; His-Hsiang Wu

doi:10.6180/jase.201909_22(3).0010

Manufacture and Test of a High Temperature Heat Pipe

Shung-Wen Kang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.¹, Huan-Ming Yeh¹, Meng-Chang Tsai² and His-Hsiang Wu¹

¹Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 25137, R.O.C.
²Dual-use Industrial Technology Cooperative Development Program, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan 32544, R.O.C.

Received: March 25, 2018
Accepted: May 7, 2019
Publication Date: September 1, 2019

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ABSTRACT

Heat pipe play an important role in high temperature energy transfer system and storage system. It can be applied to the areas such as solar energy storage system and waste heat recovery. High temperature heat pipes with 420 mm in length, 13 mm in outer diameter and 2 mm in tube thickness have been developed and tested. The device was made of Inconel 600 equipped with a 316 stainless steel 100 mesh wick. The working fluid was metal sodium with a filling ratio of 10% (2.86 g). Heat pipes start-up and thermal characteristics were investigated at different orientations with slopes of -15,0 , +45 and +90 while heat sink temperatures were kept at 27 C air environment. The evaporator temperature of 800 C was achieved when the input power was set at 790 W. It has been found that the lowest value of the heat pipes thermal resistance was 0.11 C/W when the inclination angle was at 90.

Keywords: High Temperature Heat Pipe, Metal Sodium, Stainless Steel Screen

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