Orientador: Elaine Maria Cardoso / Resumo: Dissipadores de calor compactos, baseados em microcanais, têm se mostrado um meio eficaz para o resfriamento de dispositivos de alta densidade de energia, tais como microprocessadores, além de proporcionarem redução de material utilizado para a fabri-cação e do inventário de fluido refrigerante necessário. Sistemas bifásicos que operam com fluidos refrigerantes proporcionam coeficientes de transferência de calor elevados para baixos valores de velocidade mássica e uma distribuição de temperatura mais uni-forme na superfície. O presente estudo teve por objetivo avaliar experimentalmente o desempenho de um dissipador de calor baseado em microcanais, em condições de ebuli-ção convectiva saturada do fluido HFE-7100. O dissipador, em cobre eletrolítico, possui 33 microcanais de seção retangular com dimensões de 10 mm de comprimento, 200 μm de largura, 500 μm de altura e espaçados 100 μm entre si. A eficiência térmica do dissi-pador foi avaliada utilizando como fluido de trabalho o HFE-7100 (fluido refrigerante com baixo ozone depleting potencial, ODP, e global warming potential, GWP). Dados experimentais para o coeficiente de transferência de calor (CTC) e perda de pressão fo-ram obtidos em condições de escoamento monofásico e bifásico saturados, para diferen-tes valores de velocidades mássicas. As condições testadas foram de fluxo de calor im-posto (footprint) variando de 50 a 700 kW/m², com velocidades mássicas do fluido entre 392 e 875 kg/m²s, obtendo coeficientes de transferên... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Microchannel-based heat sinks have been shown to be an effective way of cool-ing high-density energy devices such as microprocessors, as well as reducing the material used to manufacture the exchangers and the required refrigerant inventory. Two-phase flow systems that operate with refrigerant fluids provide high heat transfer coefficients with low mass flux values and more uniform temperature distribution on the surface. The present study aimed to evaluate experimentally the performance of a heat sink based on microchannels under saturated conditions of convective boiling of HFE-7100 fluid. The analyzed heat sink has 33 rectangular section microchannels measuring 10 mm length, 200 μm wide, 500 μm high and spaced 100 μm apart. The heat sink was evaluat-ed using HFE-7100 (low ozone-depleting potential, ODP, and global warming potential, GWP) as working fluid. Experimental data for the heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop were obtained under saturated single and two-phase flow conditions for different values of mass velocities. An experimental apparatus was assembled and validated for the accomplishment of testing. As experimental conditions, the heat flux was applied in a range from 50 to 700 kW/m², with mass flux from 392 and 875 kg/m²s, obtaining a heat transfer coefficient of 60 kW/m² and pressure drop up to 12 kPa. By decreasing the mass flux and the input of the subcooling the HTC increases; the pressure drop increases monotonically with the increase in the mass fl... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This study aimed to investigate performance of ARM-based computer clusters using two-phase immersion cooling approach, and demonstrate its potential benefits over the air-based natural and forced convection approaches. ARM-based clusters were created using Raspberry Pi model 2 and 3, a commodity-level, single-board computer. Immersion cooling mode utilized two types of dielectric liquids, HFE-7000 and HFE-7100. Experiments involved running benchmarking tests Sysbench high performance linpack (HPL), and the combination of both in order to quantify the key parameters of device junction temperature, frequency, execution time, computing performance, and energy consumption. Results indicated that the device core temperature has direct effects on the computing performance and energy consumption. In the reference, natural convection cooling mode, as the temperature raised, the cluster started to decease its operating frequency to save the internal cores from damage. This resulted in decline of computing performance and increase of execution time, further leading to increase of energy consumption. In more extreme cases, performance of the cluster dropped by 4X, while the energy consumption increased by 220%. This study therefore demonstrated that two-phase immersion cooling method with its near-isothermal, high heat transfer capability would enable fast, energy efficient, and reliable operation, particularly benefiting high performance computing applications where conventional air-based cooling methods would fail.

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