Spray Cooling as a High-Efficient Thermal Management Solution: A Review

As one of the most promising thermal management solutions, spray cooling has the advantages of high heat-transfer coefficient and maintaining a low temperature of the cooling surface. By summarizing the influential factors and practical applications of spray cooling, the current challenges and bottl...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2022-11, Vol.15 (22), p.8547
Main Authors: Yin, Jing, Wang, Shangming, Sang, Xuehao, Zhou, Zhifu, Chen, Bin, Thrassos, Panidis, Romeos, Alexandros, Giannadakis, Athanasios
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Configuration management
Cooling
cooling performance
Cooling systems
Data centers
Efficiency
Electric vehicles
Electronic equipment
Heat
Heat transfer
Heat transfer coefficients
Heating, cooling and ventilation
Industrial applications
Integrated circuits
Low temperature
Nozzles
Parameter modification
Performance evaluation
Reviews
Semiconductor chips
Semiconductors
Spray cooling
Temperature
thermal management
Working fluids
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Summary:As one of the most promising thermal management solutions, spray cooling has the advantages of high heat-transfer coefficient and maintaining a low temperature of the cooling surface. By summarizing the influential factors and practical applications of spray cooling, the current challenges and bottlenecks were indicated so as to prompt its potential applications in the future. Firstly, this paper reviewed the heat-transfer mechanism of spray cooling and found that spray cooling is more advantageous for heat dissipation in high-power electronic devices by comparing it with other cooling techniques. Secondly, the latest experimental studies on spray cooling were reviewed in detail, especially the effects of spray parameters, types of working fluid, surface modification, and environmental parameters on the performance of cooling system. Afterwards, the configuration and design of the spray cooling system, as well as its applications in the actual industry (data centers, hybrid electric vehicles, and so on) were enumerated and summarized. Finally, the scientific challenges and technical bottlenecks encountered in the theoretical research and industrial application of spray cooling technology were discussed, and the direction of future efforts were reasonably speculated.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en15228547