Heat sink with different fin spacing mounted on a microprocessor were tested for their heat removing capabilities by varying coolant flow rates over them
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Water cooled minichannel heat sinks for microprocessor cooling: Effect of fin spacing
1. Water cooled minichannel heat sinks for microprocessor
cooling: Effect of fin spacing
Saad Ayub, Wajahat Ali, Hafiz Muhammad, Aysha Maryam
β’ Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan
β’ Department of Electrical Engineering,
Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Wah, Pakistan
Presenters
β’ Danial Sohail ME-089
β’ Osaid Haq ME-102
β’ Daniyal Iqbal ME-103
β’ Owais Ali ME-105
2. Abstract
β’ Heat Sinks With Five Different Fin Spacing
β’ Lowest Base Temperature achieved from finest fin spacing
β’ Modifying Geometry results in 9% less base temperature than commercial heat sink
β’ 60% Higher Heat Transfer Coefficient in case of 0.2 mm fin spacing
3. Introduction
β’ Microprocessor Operating Temperature 60β to 80β
β’ Air Cooling Limitations
β’ Optimize Liquid Cooling
β’ Modify Thermophysical Properties of Coolant
β’ Modify Heat Sink Geometry Using Ordinary Coolant
4. Optimize Liquid Cooling
Modify Thermophysical Properties of Coolant
β’ Use of Nanofluids
β’ Heat Transfer Enhancement from 20% to 160%
β’ Use is still Ambiguous due to:
β’ Higher Cost
β’ More Maintenance
Modify Heat Sink Geometry
β’ Heat Transfer increases by decreasing Channel
Width
β’ Miniature Jet Stream
β’ This paper deals with effect of Sink Geometry
5. Authors Area of Study Conclusion
X.L. Xie
W.Q. Tao
Y.L. He
Heat transfer characteristics of water cooled mini
channel heat sinks
β’ Heat removal increased with
decrease in channel width.
β’ Thermal resistance increase with
increase in channel width
B.P. Whelan
R. Kempers
CPU cooling by liquid jet array impingement water
block
β’ Increased heat transfer than
commercial cooling block
P. Naphon
S. Wongwises
Experimental analysis of liquid jet impingement
cooling system on real processor
β’ Lowered CPU temperature than
commercial cooling blocks
M.R.O. PanΓ£o
J.P.P.V. Guerreiro
Analysis of intermittent multi-jet spray system β’ Higher efficiency and intelligent
thermal management
C. Bower
A. Ortega
C. Green
Water cooled Silicon carbide mini channel heat
sink for high power electronic appliances
β’ Resulted higher performance than
air cooled Silicon carbide.
Literature Review
6. Authors Area of Study Conclusion
J.A. Eastman
S.U.S. Choi
S. Li
Anomalously increased effective thermal
conductivities of ethylene glycol based nano fluids
containing copper nanoparticles
β’ 40% increase in thermal
conductivity observed
A. Ijam
B. R. Saidur
Comparison of water cooled and nano fluid cooled
multichannel heat sinks
β’ Nano fluid performed better than
water.
N.A. Roberts
D.G. Walker
Performance of Al2O3 β water nano fluid in
commercial cooling system
β’ 20% enhancement in heat transfer
and comparatively higher nano
fluid temperature at outlet under
same heat flux conditions.
M.R.O. PanΓ£o
J.P.P.V. Guerreiro
A.L.N. Moreieira
Analysis of intermittent multi-jet spray system β’ Higher efficiency and intelligent
thermal management
C.T. Nguyen
G. Roy
C. Gauthier
N. Galanis
Heat transfer enhancement using Al2O3 - water
nano fluid for an electronic liquid cooling system
β’ Resulted 38%increase in
convective heat transfer coefficient
7. Parameters for
comparison of 5 heat
sinks with
different fin spacing
Base
Temperature
(T base)
Experiment
Overall heat transfer
coefficient
(U)
π =
π πΆ π(πππ’π‘ β πππ)
π΄ (πΏπππ·)
Thermal
Resistance
(R th)
π π‘β =
πΏπππ·
π
Active Area Enhancement
(A en)
π΄ ππ =
π΄ππ‘ππ£π ππππ ππ ππππππ ππππ‘ π πππ
π΄ππ‘ππ£π ππππ ππ ππππ‘ ππππ‘π
Enhanced overall heat
transfer coefficient
(U en)
πππ =
π πππ ππππππ ππππππ‘ππ¦
π πππ ππππ‘ ππππ‘π ππππ‘ π πππ
9. Heat sink
Fin Material
Copper
Fin thickness
1.0 mm
Fin height
3.0 mm
Fin base area
28.7 Γ 28.7 mm
Fin base protrusion
0.5 mm
Heating
block
Block Material
Copper
Heating Power
325 watts
DC power
197 watts 1.65 amp
Insulation
Fiberglass wool
Liquid
cooling
system
Vendor β product
Gigabyte - galaxy
Coolant
Water
Experimental Apparatus
10. Experiment
β’ 0.2 mm
β’ 0.5 mm
β’ 1.0 mm
β’ 1.5 mm
β’ Flat surface
Fin
Spacings
β’ 0.5 LPM
β’ 0.75 LPM
β’ 1.0 LPM
Flow
rates
12. β’ Comparison with commercially available Nano fluid.
β’ Temperature of base is directly proportional to flow rate
Conclusion
β’ Lowest Base Temperature of 40.50C
β’ Usage of water
β’ Focus on Altering Geometries