Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cold plates"”.
-
Development, Characterization, & Implementation of Phase-Change Material Cold Plates for Hybrid-Electric Vehicle Battery Systems
… use of a shape-stabilized phase-change material cold plate that is capable of addressing several issues that a represent with the bulk PCM plate in its current state on the vehicle.</p>
-
Microchannel Thermal Management Analysis and Simulation Tool for Integration into Electronic Component Design
This study focuses on the use of microchannel cold plates as a thermal management solution. The goal of the study was to build the Microchannel Simulation Library Tool (MSLT), which allows cold plate designers to analyze possible solutions to electronic component cooling. The MSLT relies on a …
-
Design of motor controller water cooling system for a Formula SAE electric racecar
This thesis explores the design of a water cooled cold plate system for motor controller used in an FSAE Electric racecar. Models for pressure drop and rate of heat transfer along with the constuction of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are presented to predict the pressure drop and …
-
Enhancement of nucleate boiling heat transfer by surface modification in a cold plate evaporator
… modification with R134a in a microchannel cold plate evaporator. Internal copper and brass surfaces were modified with the deposition of copper oxide nanostructures with the intention of improving nucleate boiling heat transfer. The spike-like nanostructures increase the real internal …
-
The Next Generation Router System Cooling Design
… router. Water was the working fluid through cold plates removing heat from line card components. The water was cooled by a compact liquid-air heat exchanger and circulated by two pumps. The testing results show that junction temperatures were maintained well below the 105°C limit for ambient …
-
Experimental investigation and modeling of lithium-ion battery cells and packs for electric vehicles
… sized prismatic LiFePO4 battery is cooled by two cold plates and nineteen thermocouples and three heat flux sensors are applied to the battery at distributed locations. The experimental results show that the temperature distribution is greatly affected by both the discharge rate and BCs. The …
-
Cooling Power Electronic Building Blocks Aboard Navy Ships
… dry interface. This is achieved by hard-mounting cold plates in the electronics cabinet, placing the heat-transfer surface of each PEBB adjacent to a cold plate, and improving heat transfer across the interface through the use of a thermal pad. The thesis presents initial thermal and structural …
-
Investigation of new phase change material based thermal management systems for Li-ion batteries
… no cooling case at a high discharge rate. With cold plates, the battery temperature remains in the specified temperature range at all discharge rates, when the coolant temperature is 30°C. The results show that the thermal management system developed in the present study using 6 mm thick phase …
-
IN-SITU ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METALS FOR EMBEDDING PARTS COMPATIBLE WITH LIQUID METALS TO ENHANCE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF AVIONICS FOR SPACECRAFT
… a 1.72X improvement in heat transfer compared to cold plates packaged by conventional assembly. Additionally, multiple AM technologies synergistically complement with cross platform tools such as magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) to solve the corrosion problem in the use of low melting eutectic alloy in …
-
Design and Modeling of Shipwide Navy Integrated Power and Energy Corridor Cooling System
… dissipation strategies utilizing liquid-cooled cold plates across the dry interface of the PEBB’s external surface. Reyes [39] extended this analysis in proposing a first-pass design of a NiPEC liquid cooling system capable of servicing a single nominal compartment within the larger corridor …
-
Flow Boiling in Meso-Scale Pin-Fin Coldplates
Coldplates are a critical component in various cooling applications, such as cooling of data centers, high-end central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), and the thermal management of power electronics. The rising demand for computational resources, high-power-density …