FINAL YEAR PROJECT

Zeroth Review

Experimental investigation of honeycomb

structure in SSPCM integrated heat pipe for
electronic cooling.

Project Guide:
DrProfessor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
NIT
Introduction

• Thermal management is crucial for the longevity of electronic components like CPUs and
GPUs.

• By using various cooling techniques with heat sink incorporated with PCMs and heat pipe,
we can manage the rapid increase of temperature in the electronics.

• Honeycomb structures as porous material.

1. High surface area and good reliability.

2. Save on weight and cost.

 Literature review
S.No Research Paper Author (Year) Inference

1 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Solid-Solid Phase S.R. et al. (2022) Superior enhancement ratio achieved by
Change Material Assisted Heat Sink with Integrated Heat Pipe for integrating heat pipe and SS-PCM.
Electronic Cooling.
2 Studies on the effect of shape-stabilized PCM filled aluminum Biao Xie, The shape-stabilized PCM/aluminum
honeycomb composite material on thermal control. honeycomb composite material showed the
best combination properties of heat transfer
and mechanical behavior.
3 Experimental Investigation on Enhanced Energy Storage Solaimalai Raja The thermal conductivity of CPCM is higher
Characteristics of Spherically Encapsulated 1-Decanol/Expanded Rakkappan than PCM by a factor of 16.33.
Graphite Composite for Cold Storage System.
4 Experimental study of the thermal characteristics of a heat pipe. Mahdavi et al. Increasing the orientation in gravity-
(2018) opposed orientations deteriorates the
performance of the heat pipe in comparison
to its performance at a horizontal
orientation.
Research Gap and Objectives

• From the literature review, it is evident that there is no study so far to report the effect of
honeycomb structure in SS-PCM incorporated with heat pipe.

OBJECTIVES:

• To fabricate/employ honeycomb structure for the enhancement of heat transfer in heat

sink.

• To experimentally study the thermal performance of honeycomb structure in SS-PCM

coupled with heat pipe at constant heat flux boundary condition of 9, 11 and 13 W.

• To numerically validate the obtained experimental data.

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Literature review

Experimentation

Simulation

Analysis and validation

Final Draft
Reference

• S.R. et al., “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Solid-Solid Phase Change Material Assisted Heat
Sink with Integrated Heat Pipe for Electronic Cooling.”(2022).
• Ali, “An Experimental Study for Thermal Management Using Hybrid Heat Sinks Based on Organic Phase
Change Material, Copper Foam and Heat Pipe.”(2022)
• Weng et al., “Heat Pipe with PCM for Electronic Cooling.”(2011).
• Studies on the effect of shape-stabilized PCM filled aluminum honeycomb composite material on thermal
control. Biao Xie, Wen-long Cheng, Zhi-ming Xu
• Experimental study of the thermal characteristics of a heat pipe. Mahdavi et al. (2018)