US20150251246A1 - High-performance tool cooling system - Google Patents

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US20150251246A1 US14/641,194 US201514641194A US2015251246A1 US 20150251246 A1 US20150251246 A1 US 20150251246A1 US 201514641194 A US201514641194 A US 201514641194A US 2015251246 A1 US2015251246 A1 US 2015251246A1
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    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
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  • This disclosure relates to cooling systems for use in tools that shape materials and methods of making and using such cooling systems and tools.
  • Heat related defects are an ongoing problem in the shaping of heated materials and in casting processes in particular. Increased complexity of cast parts, demands for higher productivity, and demands for lower scrap rates all tend to place higher thermal loads on die cooling systems.
  • Typical cooling systems usually consist of a number of channels drilled or cut into the tool through which a liquid coolant is intended to flow. This is a single-phase system, where heat is transferred from the die surface (which is in contact with the material being shaped), through the material of the die, and to the surface of the cooling channels, where the liquid cooling fluid absorbs heat and carries it away from the die.
  • Heat is removed from the cooling channel walls by the cooling fluid by forced convection in an attempt to maintain an isothermal condition at the shaping surface.
  • the cooling fluid due to the high heat flux at the interface between the heated material and the die, high heat diffusion resistance of the die material (e.g., tool steel), and the convective resistance of the cooling fluid, more heat is sometimes transferred into the die material than is removed by the cooling fluid during shaping and cooling portions of the process.
  • This leads to an increase in the overall temperature of the die which can cause of a number of heat related problems, such as die soldering, shrink porosity, and/or surface cracks in the shaped part.
  • excess heat is sometimes removed using die spray after the solidification portion of the casting process. This can lengthen cycle times, increase lubricant use, increase liquid reclaim cost, and reduce die tool life via failure of the tool steel.
  • a tool for shaping a heated material includes a tool portion and a cooling passage formed in the tool portion.
  • the tool portion includes a shaping surface that has a three-dimensional contour and contacts the heated material during shaping.
  • the cooling passage is spaced from the shaping surface and includes a two-phase portion that is shaped to follow the three-dimensional contour of the shaping surface.
  • the two-phase portion of the cooling passage is configured such that a cooling fluid flowing along the cooling passage undergoes two-phase fluid flow when extracting heat from the heated material.
  • a tool for shaping a heated material includes a tool portion and a cooling passage formed in the tool portion.
  • the tool portion includes a plurality of separately formed pieces with passage surfaces and a shaping surface that contacts the heated material during shaping.
  • the cooling passage is spaced from the shaping surface, and opposing walls of the cooling passage are provided by the passage surfaces of the separately formed pieces. The opposing walls are spaced apart such that a cooling fluid flowing along a two-phase portion of the cooling passage undergoes two-phase fluid flow when extracting heat from the heated material.
  • a method of shaping a heated material into a shaped article comprises the steps of: (a) introducing the heated material into a shaping tool; (b) contacting the heated material with a shaping surface of the shaping tool such that the heated material conforms to the shaping surface; and (c) extracting heat from the heated material while the shaping tool is in a closed condition via latent heat cooling.
  • the extracted heat transforms liquid cooling fluid flowing along a cooling passage of the shaping tool to the vapor phase.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of a shaping tool in the form of a casting die that includes an enhanced cooling system with two-phase cooling passages;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional perspective view of a molded article produced by the tool of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a tool portion from the shaping tool of FIG. 1 illustrating flow of a cooling fluid through the cooling passage;
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the tool portion of FIG. 3 taken at a first opening where a supply portion of the cooling passage joins a two-phase portion of the cooling passage;
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the tool portion of FIG. 3 taken at the two-phase portion of the cooling passage;
  • FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the tool portion of FIG. 3 taken at a different location along the length of the two-phase portion of the cooling passage;
  • FIG. 7 is another embodiment of the shaping tool in the form of a sheet forming tool that includes the enhanced cooling system
  • FIG. 8 is a plot illustrating the rate of heat dissipation by a cooling fluid undergoing single-phase fluid flow and two-phase fluid flow;
  • FIG. 9 is an example of a boiling curve for a cooling fluid
  • FIG. 10 schematically depicts vapor bubble formation in the cooling fluid at the various zones I-V of FIG. 9 ;
  • FIG. 11 depicts boiling and vapor bubble formation of the cooling fluid in the two-phase portion of the cooling passage
  • FIG. 12 is a plot of the heat transfer coefficient along the length of the two-phase portion of the cooling passage of FIG. 11 ;
  • FIG. 13 is a comparison of numerical modeling to published data for fluid flow in a 0.2 mm passage
  • FIG. 14 is a plot of the pressure drop in a cooling passage as a function of the distance between opposing passage walls
  • FIG. 15 is a plot of the heat transfer coefficient in a cooling passage as a function of the distance between opposing passage walls
  • FIG. 16 is a converted thermal image of the core portion of the tool of FIG. 1 with the enhanced cooling system.
  • FIG. 17 is a converted thermal image of the same core portion before implementation of the enhanced cooling system.
  • the tool includes a cooling system with one or more cooling passages formed in the tool.
  • a cooling fluid flows along the cooling passages while the heated material is in contact with a shaping surface of the tool and extracts heat from the heated material to help transform the material into the desired shape and/or state.
  • the cooling passages can be configured as described below to greatly enhance the rate of heat extraction from the heated material by bringing the cooling fluid to its boiling point and employing the latent heat of evaporation of the cooling fluid to cool the heated material.
  • the casting die 10 includes a cooling system 12 and is configured to shape molten material into a cast or molded article, such as the housing 100 illustrated in FIG. 2 .
  • the tool 10 is adapted for use in a high pressure aluminum die casting process.
  • the tool may be another type of molding tool, such as a low pressure metal casting die or a plastics injection molding tool.
  • the tool may alternatively be a sheet forming tool, such as a hot metal stamping tool or a plastics thermoforming tool.
  • the illustrated tool 10 includes a plurality of tool portions 14 - 20 and is shown in a closed condition in FIG. 1 .
  • the tool portions 14 - 20 When in the closed condition, the tool portions 14 - 20 together define a mold cavity 22 .
  • Each tool portion 14 - 20 has a shaping surface 24 exposed to the cavity 22 .
  • the heated material which is molten metal in this particular example, is introduced into the cavity 22 and contacts and conforms to the shaping surfaces 24 .
  • the molten material is cooled with the help of the cooling system 12 and solidified in the cavity 22 .
  • the tool 10 can then be changed to an open condition to remove the article 100 .
  • tool portions 14 , 16 are core portions with respective shaping surfaces 24 that define the shape of an interior surface 102 of the molded article 100
  • tool portions 18 , 20 are cavity portions that define the shape of an exterior surface 104 of the molded article.
  • the tool is configured so that the core portions 14 , 16 can move toward or away from each other to place the tool in the respective closed or open condition.
  • the cavity portions 18 , 20 can also move toward or away from each other to close or open the tool 10 .
  • the cooling system 12 includes one or more cooling passages 26 and may include or employ one or more of the following features in various combinations: microchannels, two-phase fluid flow, conformal or three-dimensional cooling channels, bidirectional fluid flow, latent heat cooling, cooling channels with non-uniform cross-sectional areas along their length, a flow regime with non-negligible surface tension effects, opposing walls provided by separately formed pieces of the tool, or spacing between opposing passage walls that is at least an order of magnitude less than the length and width of the passage.
  • microchannels two-phase fluid flow
  • conformal or three-dimensional cooling channels bidirectional fluid flow
  • latent heat cooling cooling channels with non-uniform cross-sectional areas along their length
  • a flow regime with non-negligible surface tension effects opposing walls provided by separately formed pieces of the tool
  • spacing between opposing passage walls that is at least an order of magnitude less than the length and width of the passage.
  • each of the core portions 14 , 16 include cooling passages 26 with portions 28 configured for enhanced cooling.
  • the illustrated core portion 14 includes a base 30 and an insert 32 .
  • the insert 32 includes a cooling passage 26 with a portion 28 configured for enhanced cooling.
  • portion 28 of the cooling passage 26 is a two-phase portion of the cooling passage. The cooling fluid flowing along the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage 26 undergoes two-phase fluid flow when extracting heat from the heated material in the cavity 22 . In two-phase fluid flow, a portion of the cooling fluid is in the liquid phase, and a portion of the cooling fluid is in the vapor phase.
  • latent heat cooling is a type of cooling process that uses the latent heat of evaporation of the cooling fluid to extract heat from the heated material to solidify or otherwise change the phase or state of the heated material while the material is in contact with the shaping surface 24 of the tool 10 .
  • the latent heat of evaporation is the heat energy per unit mass of cooling fluid required to change the cooling fluid from liquid to vapor phase.
  • Latent heat cooling thus extracts heat from the heated material via phase change of the cooling fluid at a constant temperature—i.e., at the boiling point of the fluid—and does not merely rely on thermal energy transfer to a liquid phase cooling fluid that only raises the temperature of the cooling fluid in accordance with the specific heat of the cooling fluid.
  • bidirectional fluid flow may occur, where cooling fluid in the liquid phase is flowing in one direction and at least some cooling fluid in the vapor phase is flowing in the opposite direction.
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the insert 32 of the core portion 14 of the tool of FIG. 1 and illustrates the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling passage 26 , including along the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage.
  • the illustrated cooling passage 26 includes a supply portion 34 and a return portion 36 .
  • the supply portion 34 is in fluidic communication with the two-phase portion 28 via a first opening 38 and with an external cooling fluid source (not shown).
  • the return portion 36 is in fluidic communication with the two-phase portion 28 via a second opening 40 and with a cooling fluid return line (not shown).
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage 26 is located between the first and second openings 38 , 40 . As indicated by the arrows in FIG.
  • cooling fluid flows from the external cooling fluid source and into the insert 32 through the supply portion 34 , enters the two-phase portion 28 of the passage 26 via the first opening 38 , flows along the two-phase portion, and exits the two-phase portion via the second opening 40 , flowing into the return portion 36 at away from the insert.
  • the cooling passage 26 is a hollow internal portion of the insert 32 and is spaced from the shaping surface 24 .
  • the shaping surface 24 has a three-dimensional contour
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage 26 is shaped to follow this three-dimensional contour.
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the illustrated passage 26 is defined between opposing walls or passage surfaces 42 , 44 .
  • each of the passage surfaces 42 , 44 is a three-dimensional surface that is shaped to follow the three-dimensional contour of the corresponding shaping surface 24 in the two-phase portion 28 of the passage 26 .
  • Cooling passages that generally follow the contour of the shaping surface(s) of the tool may be referred to as conformal cooling passages.
  • Conformal cooling passages may be configured to maintain a relatively constant thickness of tool material (e.g., tool steel) between the cooling passage and the shaping surface, changing direction along their length within the tool to follow the contour of the shaping surface.
  • tool material e.g., tool steel
  • the insert 32 of tool portion 14 may be constructed from separately formed inner and outer pieces 46 , 48 that are attached together to form the two-phase portion 28 of the passage therebetween.
  • This construction enables the cooling passage 26 to include portions that follow the contours of the shaping surfaces and allows portions of the cooling passage to have variable dimensions along its length.
  • Traditional cooling channels are drilled or cross-drilled into molding tools, typically resulting in a collection of linear, interconnected channels each with a circular cross-section that is dictated by the drill bit used to form it.
  • the two-phase and other portions of the cooling passage 26 may include round cross-sections and/or linear segments, the coolant passage described herein, and portions thereof, can be non-linear, three-dimensional and/or conformal.
  • the opposing walls of the passage are not always the walls of a cylinder.
  • the passage walls 42 , 44 oppose each other across the cooling passage 26 and are spaced from each other by a distance D, which may vary along the flow direction of the passage.
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage has a length L defined between the first and second openings 38 , 40 and measured along the contour of the passage as shown.
  • a width of the passage is measured in a direction transverse or perpendicular to both the lengthwise direction and the direction in which the distance D is measured.
  • the passage width is measured in the circumferential direction. This is evident in FIGS. 4-6 , which are cross-sectional views of the insert 32 taken at various planes along the central axis A.
  • the cross-section of FIG. 4 is taken at the first opening 38 , where the supply portion 34 of the coolant passage joins the two-phase portion 28 . Also depicted in FIG. 4 is the direction of cooling fluid flow at the first opening 38 . The cooling fluid exiting the supply portion 34 of the cooling passage is dispersed radially through the annular first opening 38 .
  • the cross-section of FIG. 5 is taken through the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage.
  • the cross-section of FIG. 6 is taken through the two-phase portion downstream from the cross-section of FIG. 6 .
  • the effective width W of the cooling passage in this example is the circumference at any given plane along the central axis. With the cooling passage shaped as in FIGS.
  • the effective width W of the two-phase portion 28 varies along the length of the passage.
  • the width W increases along the length of the passage from the first opening 38 to the second opening 40 .
  • the distance D between the passage surfaces 42 , 44 varies along the length of the passage, decreasing along the length of the passage from the first opening 38 to the second opening 40 .
  • the cooling fluid flows along the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage in a sheet-like conformation with a relatively thin layer of cooling fluid extending in all directions along the three-dimensional contours of the passage surfaces 42 , 44 .
  • the cooling fluid flows along the two-phase portion of the cooling passage in a thin, bell-shaped configuration, providing the cooling fluid over a very large surface area.
  • the distance D between the opposing walls of the passage is at least one order of magnitude less than both the length L and the width W of the passage in the two-phase portion. In some embodiments, the distance D is at least two orders of magnitude less than both the length L and the width W.
  • the distance D may be in a range from about 0.5 mm to about 4 mm, while the length L and the width W may both be in a range from 5 mm to 40 mm or from 50 mm to 400 mm. These ranges are non-limiting and are provided to highlight certain structural distinctions over traditional cooling channels.
  • the two-phase portion 28 may have smaller dimensions than other portions of the cooling passage 26 and, in some cases, smaller dimensions that traditional drilled cooling channels.
  • the distance D between the opposing walls of the passage may be relatively small in the two-phase portion 28 .
  • These portions of the cooling passage may be referred to as microchannels, which is a non-limiting term with regard to passage size.
  • Microchannels may be generally smaller in cross-section than traditional cooling channels provided in prior art tools for a given cooling fluid. For instance, traditional casting die cooling channels may be 9 mm to 10 mm in diameter with water-based cooling fluids, while comparable microchannels may range in size from about 0.5 mm to about 4 mm for a similar cooling fluid.
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage may also be characterized by the fluid flow therein.
  • the two-phase portion 28 can be sized or otherwise configured such that surface tension effects associated with vapor bubble formation in the cooling fluid play a relatively significant role in the fluid flow along the passage.
  • the two-phase portion of the cooling passage may be made sufficiently small that vapor bubbles quickly reach a size that spans the distance D between opposing passage walls, making surface tension effects appreciable as cooling fluid in the liquid phase makes its way through the bubble-filled passage.
  • Passage dimensions are also dependent on properties of the cooling fluid, and may thus be very different for water-based cooling fluids and oil-based cooling fluids, for example.
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage has a distance D between opposing wall that is sufficiently small that the pressure drop along the length of the passage must be accounted for in order to maintain cooling fluid flow in the desired flow regime.
  • the two-phase portion 28 may have a non-uniform cross-sectional area, or distance D between opposing walls, along its length to maintain the desired fluid velocity and flow rate along the passage.
  • Certain dimensionless quantities associated with fluid flow and surface tension effects can be combined and used to help achieve the desired two-phase fluid flow regime in the cooling passage.
  • the Bond number (Bo) and the Reynolds number (Re) are two of these quantities.
  • the two-phase portion of the cooling passage is configured such that the following relationship is satisfied:
  • the Bond number is defined as:
  • g gravitational acceleration
  • ⁇ f fluid density
  • ⁇ g gas density
  • ⁇ surface tension
  • D the depth of the passage (i.e., distance between opposing passage walls.
  • the Reynolds number is defined as:
  • FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of another shaping tool 110 that employs the above-described enhanced cooling system.
  • the illustrated shaping tool 110 is a sheet forming tool, such as a plastics thermoforming tool or a sheet metal stamping or forming tool.
  • the cooling system may be particularly useful with a forming tool used in a hot stamping process, as such a process introduces heated material to the forming tool from which the heat must be removed after the formed article is made.
  • the cooling system 112 is generally the same as that described above in connection with FIGS. 1-6 , and the sheet metal forming tool 110 includes components analogous to the aforementioned casting die 10 .
  • the tool of FIG. 7 includes first and second (i.e., upper and lower) tool portions 114 , 116 and is shown in the closed condition with the heated material 118 being formed between the tool portions.
  • Each tool portion has a shaping surface 124 that contacts the heated material and to which the heated material conforms.
  • the heated material 118 is cooled with the help of the cooling system 112 before the tool is opened to remove the shaped article.
  • the tool is configured so that the tool portions 114 , 116 can move toward or away from each other to place the tool in the respective closed or open condition.
  • the lower tool portion 116 includes a base 130 and an insert 132 .
  • the insert 132 includes a cooling passage 126 with a portion 128 configured for enhanced cooling.
  • the portion 128 may be a two-phase portion of the cooling passage.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling passage 126 , including along the two-phase portion 128 of the cooling passage.
  • the illustrated part of the cooling passage 126 includes a supply portion 134 in fluidic communication with the two-phase portion 128 via a first opening 138 and with an external cooling fluid source (not shown). As indicated by the arrows in FIG.
  • cooling fluid flows from the external cooling fluid source and into the insert 132 through the supply portion 134 , enters the two-phase portion 128 of the passage 126 via the first opening 138 , flows along the two-phase portion, and then exits the two-phase portion via a second opening (not shown).
  • the shaping surface 124 has a three-dimensional contour, and the two-phase portion 128 of the cooling passage 126 is shaped to follow this three-dimensional contour.
  • the two-phase portion 128 of the illustrated passage 126 is defined between opposing walls or passage surfaces 142 , 144 .
  • at least a portion of the passage surfaces 142 , 144 is a three-dimensional surface that is shaped to follow the three-dimensional contour of the corresponding shaping surface 124 .
  • the insert 132 is constructed from separately formed inner and outer pieces 146 , 148 that are attached together to form the two-phase portion 128 of the passage therebetween.
  • the passage walls 142 , 144 oppose each other across the cooling passage 126 and are spaced from each other by a distance D, which may vary along the flow direction of the passage.
  • D may vary along the flow direction of the passage.
  • the cooling fluid flows along the two-phase portion 128 of the cooling passage in a sheet-like conformation with a relatively thin layer of cooling fluid extending in all directions along the passage surfaces 42 , 44 .
  • the enhanced cooling system may be useful to quench the heated sheet metal and/or transform or control the microstructure of the metal.
  • the process may include heating the material above a transition temperature, forming the material while heated, and quenching the material to achieve a particular microstructure.
  • the rate of cooling in the quenching step can be critical to achieve the desired microstructure.
  • Certain boron-based steel, for example, may be heated to a temperature near, at, or above an austenitic transition temperature for forming, then quenched at a rate sufficient to form a martensite microstructure. If the cooling rate during quenching is too slow, the desired mechanical properties may not be achieved in the finished article.
  • the heated material is sheet steel heated to a temperature in a range from 650° C. to 850° C., or to some other suitable temperature at which the sheet material has enhanced formability thereby allowing complex shapes to be formed in a single stroke.
  • the heated material is pressed between the tool portions, where it is cooled under pressure for a specific amount of time with the help of the above-described cooling system 112 .
  • the time required for cooling may vary based on the sheet thickness after full draw depth is reached.
  • the formed part is quenched in the closed tool at a cooling rate of at least 50° C./s or at a cooling rate in a range from about 50° C./s to 100° C./s, resulting in at least some martensitic transformation in the material.
  • the total cycle time for transferring, stamping, and cooling may range from 15 to 25 seconds.
  • the formed article exits the hot stamping tool at approximately 150° C.
  • the cooling system employed two-phase fluid flow along a portion of a cooling passage of a die casting tool and achieved higher heat dissipation rates that simple liquid phase cooling.
  • the two-phase fluid flow takes advantage of the latent heat of vaporization of the cooling fluid to provide relatively high heat transfer rates.
  • the high-performance cooling system has been modeled with commercial software (e.g., FLOW3D®).
  • FLOW3D® commercial software
  • the efficiency of a cooling system can typically be improved by: decreasing the thermal resistance of the die by moving the cooling channels or lines closer to the casting surface or by using a casting die material with a higher heat transfer coefficient; increasing the convective heat transfer coefficient between the cooling channel walls and the cooling fluid; and/or decreasing the temperature of the cooling fluid.
  • Heat flux in a single-phase system (where liquid coolant is kept below its boiling point in the liquid phase) can be expressed as:
  • ⁇ dot over (m) ⁇ , C P , T f , and T W are mass flow rate, specific heat, temperature of the cooling fluid, and temperature of the cooling passage wall, respectively. Changing the temperature of the cooling fluid has a limited effect on the efficiency of the cooling system.
  • Heat flux in a two-phase system where the cooling fluid is kept at or above its boiling point as a mixture of liquid and vapor phases, can be expressed as:
  • x and k lg are quality and latent heat of vaporization, respectively.
  • FIG. 8 is a plot of equations (1) and (2) indicating that the two-phase system can dissipate almost an order of magnitude more heat than the single-phase system.
  • the higher efficiency of the two-phase system is due at least in part to the latent heat of evaporation of most fluids being at least an order of magnitude larger than the sensible heat, such that substantially more heat can be transferred at the same cooling fluid flow rate.
  • Another advantage of the two-phase system is that evaporation of the cooling fluid always happens at the same boiling temperature, which can help prevent overcooling of the system.
  • Boiling is a phase change process that occurs when a fluid reaches its saturation temperature and is a relatively effective mode of heat transfer.
  • FIGS. 9 and 10 A typical boiling curve is shown in FIG. 9 with schematic representations of vapor phase configurations in FIG. 10 .
  • Boiling starts in the layer adjacent to a superheated passage wall with the formation of isolated vapor (e.g., steam) bubbles.
  • isolated vapor e.g., steam
  • bubble growth is suppressed by surface tension and Marangoni heat flow is the dominant heat transfer mechanism ( FIG. 10( a )).
  • FIG. 10( b ) As the wall temperature increases, the bubbles continue to grow and, at some point, overcome the surface tension suppression and separate from the wall.
  • This formation and separation of vapor bubbles from the passage wall has a significant effect on the thermal boundary layer of the fluid.
  • This stage of heat transfer corresponds to Zone II in FIG. 9 .
  • the change from convective heat transfer (I) to nucleate boiling (II) corresponds to a substantial increase in the heat transfer coefficient.
  • the formed bubbles begin to merge together as they move in the vertical direction, forming vapor or steam jets ( FIG. 10( c )).
  • This stage of boiling corresponds to Zone III in FIG. 9 .
  • neighboring vapor jets merge into larger formations ( FIG. 10( d )), and most of the surface of the heated wall is covered with vapor.
  • the surface of the wall becomes isolated from the liquid making it difficult for the fluid to wet the surface of the heated wall.
  • stage critical heat flux (CHF) is reached and wall temperature rises very quickly.
  • Zone IV of FIG. 9 When the surface of the wall becomes isolated, heat cannot be transferred efficiently into the liquid cooling fluid. This causes the reduction of the heat flux as shown in Zone IV of FIG. 9 . If the temperature of the wall continues to rise, the heat flux exceeds the CHF and the bulk of the fluid starts to boil ( FIG. 10( e )). This signifies departure from nucleate boiling and is characterized by large bubble formation. This stage of boiling (IV) may be referred to as transition boiling or partial film boiling. Due to the dynamic nature of the process, conditions might oscillate between film and nucleate boiling. As the wall temperature continues to increase, the boiling process is transferred into film boiling, represented as Zone V in FIG. 9 and in FIG. 10( f ).
  • An advantage of the two-phase cooling system is the ability to maintain a quasi-stable channel wall temperature in the direction of fluid flow in combination with a high heat transfer coefficient.
  • Two-phase flow can occur in the cooling passages of the die during the cooling or solidification portion of the shaping process any time the cooling fluid reaches its boiling point.
  • a portion of the cooling passage may be configured such that surface tension forces have a more pronounced influence on the fluid flow characteristics. Bubbly flow can be rarely observed in a microchannel because bubbles grow and quickly reach size of the passage. In a relatively small sized passage, Taylor instability is not typically present.
  • Stage I indicates single-phase (liquid) flow of the cooling fluid. Forced convection is the dominant heat transfer mode in Stage I.
  • Stage II is characterized by a bubbly flow—a short and unstable flow regime. As more heat is transferred into the cooling fluid, the vapor bubbles grow larger, coalesce into larger slugs (Stage III), and occupy most or all of the distance D between the opposing passage walls. Further expansion of the bubbles reduces pressure in the fluid and surface tension force pushes the fluid front in the opposite direction. This causes a reverse flow, with a film of liquid cooling fluid adjacent to the passage walls (Stage IV).
  • Cooling passages of a casting die or other shaping tool play an important role in extracting the heat transferred into the bulk tool material from the heated material (e.g., molten metal) during the cooling stage of the process. Increased capacity of the cooling passages can help reduce or prevent a number of the casting problems listed above. The ability to dissipate a larger heat flux can also reduce the cooling time of the heated material. Attempts have been made to optimize die cooling channels by providing specific channel shapes or sizes based on calculated thermal load—i.e., predicted hotter regions of the tool surface had an associated higher coolant flow rate, for example. However, in these efforts, cooling channel position and spacing were kept in line with conventional drilled cooling channel design.
  • the high-efficiency cooling system described herein which may employ three-dimensional cooling passages and/or microchannels, has been modeled with commercial CFD software (e.g., FLOW3D®) in proof-of-concept experiments.
  • CFD software e.g., FLOW3D®
  • the pressure drop along the length L of the passage should be considered when designing the cooling system.
  • Pressure variation in a cooling passage is plotted in FIG. 14 as a function of distance D between opposing passage walls.
  • the pressure drop is substantially reduced for a passage dimension D of 0.4 mm or larger.
  • the effect of the distance D between opposing passage walls on the heat transfer coefficient is plotted in FIG. 15 .
  • the heat transfer coefficient is substantially independent of the distance D for values of 0.4 mm or larger.
  • unconfined bubble flow is the preferred flow regime in order to maximize the heat transfer coefficient in the cooling passage.
  • the transition between confined and unconfined bubble flow in a microchannel is expressed as follows:
  • Zones IV and V of FIG. 11 are represented by equation (3), with numbers greater than 160 indicating Zone V flow and numbers less than 160 indicating Zone IV flow.
  • a metal die casting tool with a core portion in front of the gate was chosen to verify the effectiveness of the enhanced cooling system.
  • the embodiments depicted in FIGS. 1-6 are representative of the verification tool.
  • This casting tool is used in a high pressure die casting process to produce a part from aluminum A380.
  • the weight of the cast article is 4.1 kg with a 6 mm average wall thickness.
  • the velocity of molten material velocity at the gate during the casting process is 40 m/s.
  • the conventional core was cooled by a cascade-type water bubbler.
  • the conventional core had an on-going problem with soldering and had a dedicated outside spray cooling line to further cool the core after each cycle.
  • the particular core portion discussed here is the insert 32 of FIGS. 1 and 3 , which includes a shaping surface that forms a portion of the interior surface of the cast article of FIG. 2 .
  • the cooling passage 26 depicted in FIGS. 1 and 3 was implemented as a two-piece insert 32 made from H13 tool steel.
  • the two-phase portion 28 of the cooling passage 26 is formed between the separately formed inner and outer pieces 46 , 48 , which are welded or otherwise attached together.
  • the cooling passage is positioned as close to the shaping surface as possible, accounting for the pressure of the high velocity molten metal during the die filling portion of the process.
  • An FEA analysis was performed to verify that the stresses generated in the core portion from the interaction with the molten metal during the die cast operation do not exceed fatigue stress of the H13 steel.
  • the insert 32 was fabricated and implemented in the core portion 14 of the casting die 10 of FIG. 1 .
  • the temperature of the core portion was measured using an FLIR infrared thermal imaging camera, with the results shown in FIG. 16 .
  • the temperatures of various portions of the core portion with the enhanced cooling system were compared with those of the original core that used conventional cooling ( FIG. 17 ).
  • the temperatures were measured before the auxiliary cooling spray that was previously implemented with the original and conventional cooling system.
  • the core with the enhanced cooling system including two-phase cooling passages, likely does not require any auxiliary post-cycle cooling, such as a coolant spray after part solidification.
  • the core insert with the enhanced cooling system was visually inspected after 6000 casting cycles and did not exhibit any evidence of soldering.
  • the terms “for example,” “e.g.,” “for instance,” “such as,” and “like,” and the verbs “comprising,” “having,” “including,” and their other verb forms, when used in conjunction with a listing of one or more components or other items, are each to be construed as open-ended, meaning that that the listing is not to be considered as excluding other, additional components or items.
  • Other terms are to be construed using their broadest reasonable meaning unless they are used in a context that requires a different interpretation.

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