Introduction The increasing heat load densities in datacom equipment centers require ever more sophisticated approaches to cooling. Air-cooled systems are now struggling to provide the needed level of thermal performance for many installations and energy efficiency is an increasing concern. In fact, the standard implementation of air-cooled designs results in cooling energy … [Read more...]
Heat Spreading Calculations Using Thermal Circuit Elements
Heat Spreading Calculations Using Thermal Circuit Elements Bruce Guenin, Associate Technical Editor Introduction In electronics cooling applications, there are numerous changes of scale from the chip level to the system level. This is characteristic of the signaling, power, and thermal infrastructures in electronic systems. Because of this, it is inevitable that the heat flow … [Read more...]
Heat of Vaporization
Thermal energy transfer associated with a change of phase can be a valuable phenomenon for engineers designing systems for electronics cooling. Solid to liquid phase change materials were described in the May 2005 Technical Data column and the topic for this issue is liquid to vapor phase change. The energy required to change a substance from a liquid state to a vapor state is … [Read more...]
A Simple Method to Estimate the Physical Characteristics of a Thermoelectric Cooler from Vendor Datasheets
Introduction A thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is a solid-state refrigerator that operates on the Peltier effect. The absence of moving parts, compact size, precise temperature control ability and reliability all combine to make the TEC a unique refrigerator. TECs find application [1, 2] in many fields from simple food and beverage coolers for an afternoon picnic to extremely … [Read more...]
Thermal Conductivity Of Liquid Metals
This column deals with the thermal conductivity and melting points of liquid metals. Thinking about liquid metals, many people associate them with high temperatures. It is not widely known that some metallic alloys are liquid below 0�C, with the exception of course of mercury which was already known in ancient times. China's first emperor is said to have been buried in rivers … [Read more...]
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