Compliant heat exchangers, heat pipes and methods for making same
Abstract
A method for fabricating heat exchangers using additive manufacturing technologies. Additive manufacturing enables the manufacture of heat exchangers with complex geometries and/or with internal and external integral surface features. Additive manufacture also facilitates the manufacture of heat exchangers with regional variations, such as changes in size, shape and surface features. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a heat exchanger with a helicoidal shape that provides axial elastic compliance. In one embodiment, the internal channel of the heat exchanger varies along its length. The internal channel may have a cross-sectional area that increases progressively from one end to the other. In one embodiment, the external shape of the tubular structure may be non-circular to optimize heat transfer with an external heat transfer fluid. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a heat pipe with an internal wicking structure formed as an integral part of the additive manufacturing process.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1998324
- Patent Number(s):
- 11633789
- Application Number:
- 17/171,323
- Assignee:
- UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 02/09/2021
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Lara-Curzio, Edgar, Cramer, Corson L., Elliott, Amelia M., Fricke, Brian A., Jain, Prashant K., Lowden, Richard R., Nawaz, Kashif, Rao, Vivek M., and Sandlin, Matthew J. Compliant heat exchangers, heat pipes and methods for making same. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web.
Lara-Curzio, Edgar, Cramer, Corson L., Elliott, Amelia M., Fricke, Brian A., Jain, Prashant K., Lowden, Richard R., Nawaz, Kashif, Rao, Vivek M., & Sandlin, Matthew J. Compliant heat exchangers, heat pipes and methods for making same. United States.
Lara-Curzio, Edgar, Cramer, Corson L., Elliott, Amelia M., Fricke, Brian A., Jain, Prashant K., Lowden, Richard R., Nawaz, Kashif, Rao, Vivek M., and Sandlin, Matthew J. Tue .
"Compliant heat exchangers, heat pipes and methods for making same". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1998324.
@article{osti_1998324,
title = {Compliant heat exchangers, heat pipes and methods for making same},
author = {Lara-Curzio, Edgar and Cramer, Corson L. and Elliott, Amelia M. and Fricke, Brian A. and Jain, Prashant K. and Lowden, Richard R. and Nawaz, Kashif and Rao, Vivek M. and Sandlin, Matthew J.},
abstractNote = {A method for fabricating heat exchangers using additive manufacturing technologies. Additive manufacturing enables the manufacture of heat exchangers with complex geometries and/or with internal and external integral surface features. Additive manufacture also facilitates the manufacture of heat exchangers with regional variations, such as changes in size, shape and surface features. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a heat exchanger with a helicoidal shape that provides axial elastic compliance. In one embodiment, the internal channel of the heat exchanger varies along its length. The internal channel may have a cross-sectional area that increases progressively from one end to the other. In one embodiment, the external shape of the tubular structure may be non-circular to optimize heat transfer with an external heat transfer fluid. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a heat pipe with an internal wicking structure formed as an integral part of the additive manufacturing process.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2023},
month = {4}
}
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