Methods for rejecting daytime waste heat to outer space

Stark, Addison K.

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwx052

Title: Methods for rejecting daytime waste heat to outer space

Abstract

We report that outer space constitutes an extremely low temperature (T ~ 4 K) thermodynamic reservoir of boundless thermal capacity, with the potential to serve as a cold reservoir for cooling objects to sub-ambient temperatures in the daytime. For example, assuming a perfect emitter at 300 K, the theoretical black-body heat transfer rate to space can be calculated to be 450 Wm-2 [1]. However, for terrestrial objects, the atmosphere serves as a highly effective infrared (IR) insulator, as well as a heat source via radiation, convection and conduction to the object when cooled to sub-ambient temperatures.

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Stark, Addison K. ^[1]

USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), Washington, DC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1464730

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: National Science Review

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2095-5138

Publisher:: China Science Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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  title        = {Methods for rejecting daytime waste heat to outer space},

  author       = {Stark, Addison K.},

  abstractNote = {We report that outer space constitutes an extremely low temperature (T ~ 4 K) thermodynamic reservoir of boundless thermal capacity, with the potential to serve as a cold reservoir for cooling objects to sub-ambient temperatures in the daytime. For example, assuming a perfect emitter at 300 K, the theoretical black-body heat transfer rate to space can be calculated to be 450 Wm-2 [1]. However, for terrestrial objects, the atmosphere serves as a highly effective infrared (IR) insulator, as well as a heat source via radiation, convection and conduction to the object when cooled to sub-ambient temperatures.},

  doi          = {10.1093/nsr/nwx052},

  journal      = {National Science Review},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Tue May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

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Fig. 1: (A) The spectral power density of the incident solar irradiance and blackbody radiation from a room temperature emitter are plotted. Due to the order of magnitude difference, a highly effective selective emitter is required to simultaneously reflect the solar irradiance while still emitting within the 8-13μm sky-window. (B)more »

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