In this Technical Note, the use of a liquid metal, i.e., a low melting point Pb–Sn–In–Bi alloy, as the phase change material (PCM) in thermal energy storage-based heat sinks is tested in comparison to an organic PCM (1-octadecanol) having a similar melting point of

The resultant optimal heat sink design was fabricated via additive manufacturing and exhibited better heat transfer performance with lower pumping power compared to benchmark heat sink designs. Recently, Pizzolato et al. [22] presented an approach combining density-based topology optimization and multi-phase computational

The circular pin-finned and Cu foam heat sink with a heat flux of 0.98 kW/m 2 and 0.25 wt% of Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles substantially reduced the base temperature

The liquid distribution plate and thermal insulation plate are both made of heat-resisting material, i.e., polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). The liquid distribution plate is designed to

The crucial requirement here is a low-cost storage medium, meaning solutions are needed that favor heat storage and high-energy density fuel production vs. electrical energy storage in batteries. Examples of ongoing projects at MIT include heat storage in large stacks of firebricks and underground permeable rock, as well as synthetic fuels and

Combining the Heat Sink (HS) with the Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is an innovative method that can be used for the temperature control of electronic boards [5]. PCM is an Energy Storage Material (ESM) that accumulates thermal energy at a stable6].

The X-shaped SCD heat sink has the highest heat transfer coefficient of up to 1.08 × 10 5 W/(m 2 ·K), which is 20.4 % higher than that of RSMC heat sink. Owing to the highest performance evaluation criterion of 1.22, the X-shaped straight microchannel heat sink is the most optimal of the designed heat sinks.

The thermal conductivity of the prepared PCM composite ranged from 164 to 344 W/mK, which was considerably larger than that of traditional PCMs. Fan et al. [33] designed a thermal energy storage-based heat sink applying a liquid metal as the

Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to the environment. This paper discusses the fundamentals and novel applications of TES materials and identifies appropriate TES materials for particular

Heat transfer performance of graphene nano-platelets laden micro-encapsulated PCM with polymer shell for thermal energy storage based heat sink Appl. Therm. Eng., 156 (2019), pp. 237-249 View PDF View

With the development of micro-machining technologies, the microchannel heat sink (MCHS) has become one of the best ways to remove the considerable amount

The use of smaller modular heat sinks (MHSs) strategically placed on high power dissipation areas of the PCB enables elimination of electrical potential difference,

Thermal energy storages are applied to decouple the temporal offset between heat generation and demand. For increasing the share of fluctuating renewable

1 Design of Micro-nano Structures for Counter Flow Diverging Microchannel Heat Sink with Extraordinarily High Energy Efficiency Xingchi Jiang1, Syed Waqar Ali Shah1, Jian Liu1,2, Yuanjie Li1, Shiwei Zhang3, Zuankai Wang1, Chin Pan1* 1 Department of

A concept of using energy storage material (ESM) or phase change material (PCM) to enhance the heat transfer dissipation by a conventional compact fin

Combining the Heat Sink (HS) with the Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is an innovative method that can be used for the temperature control of electronic boards [ 5

The latent heat storage (LHS) technique has been widely applied in various thermal energy conversion and management fields. However, LHS device suffers from very slow heat storage/release process. Here, a bionic topology optimization method is proposed to enhance thermal storage/release performances considering different

Heat pipes have been used extensively in a variety of energy storage systems. They are suited to thermal storage systems, in particular, in the role of heat

In this study, a cascaded sensible-latent heat composite energy storage heat sink was constructed, and its thermal performance was experimentally tested and