Liquid-Nitrogen Spray-Cooling Combined Effect of the Spray Height and Heat-Sink-Surface Diameter

Abstract

An experimental bench was constructed for liquid nitrogen spray cooling in an open loop system, and the combined effect of the spray height, heat sink surface diameter, and spray mass flow on the heat transfer characteristics of liquid nitrogen spray cooling was studied by comparing 50 sets of experimental data. In general, the heat transfer performance decreased with an increase in the spray height and heat sink surface diameter, with the latter’s influence being more dominant. In the experiment, when the heat sink surface diameter increased to 24 mm, the influence of the spray height on the heat transfer performance decreased. The maximum critical heat flux and maximum heat transfer coefficient were 191.90 W·cm−2 and 16.67 W·cm−2·K−1.

Keywords

• spray cooling
• liquid nitrogen
• spray height
• surface diameter
• combined effect