WO2010055253A1 - Dispositif de régulation thermique à réseau de caloducs capillaires interconnectés - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a thermal control device of the type based on capillary heat transfer fluid flow heat exchangers, used for cooling, respectively heating, hot springs, respectively cold, and interconnected in at least one network.
- a capillary tube is a simple hollow tube whose internal wall is smooth
- a heat transfer capillary heat pipe 1 is formed, in a most common and economical variant of the state of the art, and as shown schematically in longitudinal and transverse sections in FIGS. 1a and 1b respectively, of a hollow tube 2 having longitudinal internal grooves 3 extruded in the mass from its inner face and surrounding a central channel 4.
- the central channel 4 is surrounded by a substantially annular structure of a porous material such as, for example, porous copper, or any other porous structure 5, lining the inner wall of the tube 2
- a porous material such as, for example, porous copper, or any other porous structure 5
- These particular structures are hereinafter referred to as "capillary structures”, and are generally arranged at the level of the internal surface of the tube 2 of the capillary heat pipe 1 to retain the liquid phase of a heat transfer fluid at this level, and separate it from the vapor phase, which circulates in the central channel 4.
- the heat pipe 1 thus has two different capillary dimensions (for example the diameter of the central channel 4 and the thickness or radial dimension of the capillary structure 3, 5), which allow a dissociated flow (co-current or countercurrent) of the liquid phase and the vapor phase of the fluid used to transport the heat.
- a capillary heat pipe 1 generally comprises a linear tube 2, or having at least one section, closed at its two ends, and filled with a two-phase heat transfer fluid at a suitable pressure, allowing the transport of heat by vaporization, flow of the vapor, then condensation of the fluid.
- the capillary heat pipe 1 is generally in the form of a bar, possibly bent in some places, whose dimensions are adapted as needed.
- the cross section of the tube 2 may for example be circular or quadrangular.
- the tube 2 may be in direct thermal contact with at least one hot source such as 6 in FIG. 1a and at least one cold source such as 7 in FIG. 1a, or in thermal contact with at least one soleplate, itself in thermal contact with at least one hot source or at least one cold source.
- the capillary heat pipe 1 connects one or more hot springs 6 (for example heat-dissipating electronic equipment or heaters), at an evaporation zone 8, to one or more cold sources 7 (for example radiators, or equipment or structures to be heated), at a condensation zone 9.
- the liquid phase of the fluid flows from the condensation zone 9, in heat exchange relation with the cold source or sources 7, towards the evaporation zone 8, in heat exchange relation with the hot source (s) 6, through the capillary structure 3, 5 lining the wall of the tube 2.
- the evaporation zone 8 in contact with the hot source (s) 6, the liquid vaporizes, and the vapor thus formed is evacuated through the central channel 4 of the tube 2 to the condensing zone 9, where the vapor condenses in the liquid phase by releasing heat towards the cold source or sources 7.
- oscillating heat pipes consisting of simple capillary tubes (hollow tubes of small internal diameter, for example 2 to 5 mm) connected and interconnected end to end to form one or more loops.
- This closed capillary duct whose opposite ends of the loop or loops are in heat exchange relation with, on one side, an evaporator, and, on the other side, a condenser, is filled with a heat transfer fluid present. in its two phases (liquid and vapor). The flow of The phases are exclusively co-current, with segments or "plugs" of liquid being pushed by steam bubbles formed by heat absorption at the evaporative zone thermally coupled to one or more hot sources.
- the closed capillary duct partially filled with liquid placed by the evaporation zone in thermal contact with the hot source or sources, promotes the successive expansion of vapor bubbles of a length of up to several millimeters (typically 5 to 10 mm).
- the expansion of these vapor bubbles pushes "corks" of liquid at their ends and steam bubbles between successive "plugs” of liquid, so that the movement of these plugs and bubbles puts liquid and steam in thermal contact, through the condensing zone, with one or more cold sources, which condenses vapor into liquid.
- the flow of the liquid fluid in this closed circuit promotes the return of liquid to the evaporation zone, and the generation of a new bubble at the latter.
- the liquid segments and gas bubbles move globally and alternately to the evaporation zone and to the condensation zone.
- a capillary heat pipe is therefore different from, and much more efficient than, that of a single capillary tube used in oscillating heat pipes or in co-current heat pipes according to US6,269,865 and such as that described below with reference to Figure 2 (which corresponds to Figure 3 of US 6,269,865).
- a capillary tube whose internal wall is smooth, is limited in pumping capacity to a value inversely proportional to the diameter of the tube, less than 100 Pa.
- a capillary heat pipe given the small capillary dimension of the structure porous or grooves in the inner wall, allows to achieve pumping capacities greater than 500 Pa.
- a capillary heat pipe allows, moreover, to homogenize the temperature along the tube of the heat pipe, the phases liquid and vapor fluid flowing independently of each other in both directions of the tube according to different hot spots and cold spots along the heat pipe.
- US Pat. No. 6,269,865 describes a network heat pipe 11 of simple capillary tubes 12 interconnected forming closed, substantially square or rectangular loops 13, in communication with each other and with two capillary tubes 12a and 12a respectively.
- outlet 12b which close at opposite ends of a heat exchanger.
- This exchanger can operate as an evaporator 18, if it is in thermal contact with at least one hot source 16 and if the network 11 operates in heat dissipation unit, in thermal contact with at least one source cold or heat sink.
- This exchanger can also operate in condenser 19, if it is in thermal contact with at least one cold source and if the network 11 operates in a heat capture unit, in thermal contact with at least one hot source.
- This type of network 11 is used to dissipate heat produced in a hot source such as 16.
- a hot source such as 16.
- This network 11 operates only if it is connected to a heat absorption unit 18, in heat exchange relation with at least one hot source 16, this unit 18 being dissociated from the network 11 used for dissipation thermal.
- the absorption unit 18 must vaporize the fluid at the inlet 12a of the network 11 of capillary tubes.
- the steam 15 thus created is condensed at the level of the network 11 in contact with at least one cold source, forming as the liquid plugs 14 are pushed by vapor bubbles 15.
- the fluid in the liquid state 14 is evacuated at the outlet 12b of the network 11 and returned to the absorption unit 18.
- the liquid 14 and the steam 15 necessarily circulate in the same direction (co-current flows).
- the liquid 14 and the vapor 15 can not be distributed independently of one another within the network 11, thereby preventing the establishment of a diphasic regime anywhere in the network 11.
- the liquid 14, moreover no longer present as and as the fluid condenses, has a much less heat-absorbing capacity than that created by the vapor condensation 15.
- the accumulation of liquid 14 at certain locations of the network 11, in particular at the nodes 20 of the network 11 that is to say the interconnections of at least two loops 13 of the network 11, slows the flow of steam 15. Overall, the flow of heat absorbable by the network 11 is limited, and the thermal load can not allocate effectively within the network 11.
- the heat exchanges between the two heat pipes 21 can only be done by conductive exchanges, either by direct contact between the tubes 22 of the two heat pipes 21, or possibly at using at least one massive intermediate piece, a good heat-conducting material, coating the two heat pipes 21, at their intersection, and sometimes called sole, forming a thermal interface or a thermal bridge between these two heat pipes 21.
- the object of the invention is to provide a thermal regulation device with a capillary heat pipe network which overcomes all the aforementioned limitations of the state of the art and provides other advantages which are presented in the description which follows.
- the subject of the invention is a thermal regulation device, comprising at least one capillary heat pipe network, each heat pipe comprising a tube enclosing a substantially annular longitudinal capillary structure, for the circulation of a two-phase heat transfer fluid in phase. liquid, and surrounding a central channel for the circulation of said two-phase fluid in the vapor phase, and characterized in that the tubes of at least two heat pipes of the network intertwine and are interconnected so that at each intersection of heat pipes forming a node of the network, a liquid phase fluid exchange can be carried out by capillarity between the capillary structures of said at least two heat pipes, and that simultaneously a fluid exchange in vapor phase can be effected by free circulation between the central channels of said at least two heat pipes.
- each end of each heat pipe is connected to a node of the network, except for one or more inputs / outputs of the network, which can in particular ensure the communication of the network with at least one extension of this network of heat pipes and / or with at least one other heat pipe network of said device.
- one or more heat pipes of the network can extend distances distant from the network, up to a few meters, to seek thermal contact with hot springs or cold sources remote from said network.
- a fluid reservoir is connected to the network, for example at an input or an outlet of the network, in order to adapt the quantity of fluid present in the network to the variations in temperature of the network, particular to accommodate fluid expansion and condensed fluid level.
- the device of the invention is advantageously such that at each node of the network, the capillary structures of all the heat pipe branches terminating at said node provide a capillary continuity for the fluid in the liquid phase, so that the fluid in the liquid phase arriving at said node in any heat pipe branch resulting in said node can flow by capillarity in all other heat pipe branches leading to said node. There is therefore capillary continuity for the liquid in all directions between the different branches leading to the nodes and through the nodes.
- the device is advantageously such that at each node of the network, the central channels of all heat pipe branches leading to said node ensure, simultaneously with the continuity of fluid flow in the liquid phase, a flow continuity of the fluid in the vapor phase, so that the vapor phase fluid arriving at said node by any heat pipe branch leading to said node, can flow into all other heat pipe branches leading to said node.
- the capillary continuity provided to the various nodes must allow fluid in the liquid phase to flow by capillarity, in an area where the surface tension effects are predominant on the effects of gravity or inertia. It is not necessary to have perfect continuity of said capillary structures, but it must at least be ensured that there is not a discontinuity of the capillary effect at this level.
- the capillary structures of the heat pipe branches leading to said node do not have between them discontinuity of size greater than the typical dimension of a pore or a groove of the capillary structure of the heat pipes, depending on whether this structure comprises respectively a porous material or grooves internal to the corresponding tube.
- the continuity of the fluid flow conduit in the vapor phase must allow the steam to flow by inertia.
- the flow continuity of the fluid in the vapor phase is ensured, between the central channels of the heat pipe branches leading to said node, by a flow conduit of which at least a typical dimension or the passage section is substantially equal to at least one typical dimension or the passage section of the central channels of said heat pipe branches leading to said node.
- At least one heat pipe of the network may comprise at least one branch which differs from the branches of at least one other heat pipe of the network, at the level of the capillary structure and / or at least one dimension typical of said heat pipe branch.
- said at least one heat pipe network that it comprises is a two-dimensional network comprising two pluralities of heat pipes such that the heat pipes of each plurality are oriented over at least part of their length. substantially in one of two directions respectively inclined relative to each other, and preferably perpendicular to each other, so that the heat pipes of the two pluralities intercross and are interconnected at their crossing according to the characteristics described above. .
- the device according to the invention can be generalized in that at least one network that it comprises is a three-dimensional heat pipe network comprising, at at least one node of the network, at least three heat pipe branches oriented in at least one part of their length according to one respectively of three directions, inclined, two by two, with respect to each other, and preferably perpendicular to each other, two by two, said at least three branches of heat pipe crisscrossing and being interconnected according to the characteristics described above.
- At least one node of the network the at least two heat pipes that intersect and are interconnected to said node have their respective tube and capillary structure cut into complementary shape cuts such as heat pipes. 'nest at the cutouts by reconstructing a wall continuity of the tubes, secured together along the cutouts, a capillary continuity along the capillary structures and a continuity of flow along the channels of said heat pipes.
- This embodiment is more particularly suitable for heat pipes of quadrangular section (rectangular or square) or circular forming a two-dimensional network.
- the interconnection of the heat pipes at the level of at least one node, and preferably of all the nodes where at least two branches of heat pipe are connected together is made in a modular manner, via a hollow junction piece, having in particular the appearance of a cross for a two-dimensional network node where four heat pipe branches are interconnected, and that, by generalization, it is called brace thereafter.
- the device is such that at least one node of the network comprises a hollow junction piece, said cross, ensuring the interconnection between them of all heat pipe branches leading to said node, said piece junction having tubular connecting branches, in number equal to the heat pipe branches interconnecting said node, each with an internal and substantially annular capillary structure surrounding a central channel, each connecting branch connecting to the other connecting branches by a longitudinal end, called the internal end, and a branch of respective heat pipe by its opposite longitudinal end, said outer end, so that the capillary structure of each junction branch is in capillary continuity, at its outer end, with the capillary structure of said corresponding heat pipe, and is in capillary continuity, at its inner end, with the capillary structure of each of the other junction branches, and so that its central channel is in communication, at its outer end, with the central channel of the corresponding heat pipe branch, and at its inner end , with the central channel of each of the other junction branches.
- capillary structure of the heat pipes consists of grooves
- this capillary structure of the heat pipes it is advantageous for this capillary structure of the heat pipes to be arranged in capillary continuity with the capillary structure of the junction branches of the braces consisting of a porous structure or a porous material, which has a high permeability, with a pore diameter of the porous structure or material which is not more than twice the opening of said grooves, to facilitate the flow of the liquid.
- This value can change depending on the fluid wettability characteristics of the different materials used.
- braces also consisting of a porous structure or a porous material, which has a high permeability with a pore diameter which is not greater than the pore diameter of the porous structure or the porous material of the heat pipes. This value can also change depending on the wettability characteristics of the fluid on the different materials used.
- the heat pipe network may be constituted by standard heat pipe tubes already marketed, either groove profile or porous capillary structure.
- the pipes of the heat pipes of the network are simply welded to the tubes of the cross or braces.
- any spider may be arranged to connect any number of heat pipe branches, generally 2 to 8 heat pipe branches, in a two or three dimensional array.
- a heat exchange can be between each hot source and one or more elements. network (branches or nodes of the network). The network then makes it possible to efficiently collect all the heat produced by the hot source or sources and to homogenize the temperature of the assembly.
- the heat pipe network collects the heat generated by at least one hot source in thermal contact with at least a part of the network, and discharges said heat through at least one cold source in thermal contact with at least one other part of the network.
- the hot springs may be either "point", dissipative element type or heater, or continuous type structure heated by at least one external source.
- the cold sources may be punctual, cold finger type of refrigerant element, or continuous type radiative structure cooled by at least one external source.
- the device makes it possible, by heat exchanges due to the changes in states of the two-phase fluid, to efficiently collect heat released by one or more hot sources by evaporation of the fluid, and the transfer through the network to one or more cold sources where the fluid condenses to return by capillarity to the hot source or sources.
- Such a device can be used indifferently to cool one or more hot springs, and / or to heat one or more cold sources.
- the fluid used will be adapted to the operating temperatures of the system.
- ammonia can be used for operating temperatures of between -40 ° C. and + 100 ° C.
- said at least one heat pipe network of the device can be integrated at least partly in the mass of a structure, whose temperature is to be controlled.
- a part of said at least one heat pipe network is in thermal contact with at least one hot source, respectively cold, and another part of said network is in thermal contact with at least one cold source, respectively hot .
- the device in any of the embodiments presented above, further comprises at least one fluid loop, preferably two-phase, with capillary pumping, for transporting heat of said at least one heat pipe network to at least one remote heat sink, the evaporation zone of the fluid loop being in thermal contact with at least a part of the heat pipe network.
- at least one condensation zone of said fluid loop is in thermal contact with said at least one cold source.
- the device comprises at least one fluid loop, preferably two-phase with capillary pumping, for transporting heat from at least one hot source remote to said at least one heat pipe network, the condensation zone of the fluid loop being in thermal contact with at least a portion of said heat pipe network.
- at least one evaporation zone of said loop is in thermal contact with said at least one hot source.
- the device of the invention may also be such that said at least one heat pipe network is an integral part of a supporting structure to which is attached at least one hot source and / or at least one cold source.
- said carrier structure may advantageously be constituted by said at least one heat pipe network itself, capable of supporting dissipative equipment, which limits the mass of the assembly.
- the function of the network of heat pipes is then double: thermal, with the transport, the homogenization of the heat, and mechanical, with the support / maintenance of dissipative equipments.
- the device of the invention can be applied to a thermal control system making it possible to control the temperature of said at least one network, or at least one element in thermal contact with said network.
- This is achieved by arranging the device so that it further comprises at least one temperature sensor disposed on said at least one heat pipe network or in the vicinity of at least one element in thermal contact with said at least one network, and at least one heating member, respectively cooling, in thermal contact with said at least one network, so that the temperature of said at least one network or of said at least one element is controlled by applying a thermal power setpoint to be produced by said at least one a heating member, respectively cooling, as a function of differences noted between the temperature measurements provided by said at least one temperature sensor and a temperature setpoint.
- the element or elements in thermal contact with the network may or may be one or more point sources such as equipment, or a carrier structure of equipment in which the network is integrated, or a mechanical part in which the network is integrated.
- the advantage of the heat pipe network according to the invention is to effectively homogenize the temperature although the one or more heating or cooling organs act punctually on the network, the diffusion of heat to the whole elements, the supporting structure or the mechanical part being done very efficiently via the network.
- the device of the invention can be the subject of many advantageous applications, a first relates to the cooling of an active antenna comprising radio-frequency (RF) tiles, whose dimensional characteristics are similar and the power dissipation characteristics possibly different, and which are arranged, preferably regularly, on a carrier structure in the form of grid, characterized in that at least one heat pipe network of said device is integrated in said carrier structure of the active antenna, and the heat collected by said network is discharged to at least one radiator by at least one extension of said network of heat pipes and / or at least one other heat pipe network and / or at least one fluid loop of said device.
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- a second advantageous application relates to the cooling of a carrier wall of electronic equipment, and is characterized in that at least one heat pipe network of said device is fixed on at least one thermally conductive skin of the wall, and preferably between two heat-conducting skins of said wall, and the heat collected by said at least one heat pipe network is discharged to at least one cold source, such as a radiator, by at least one extension of said heat pipe network and / or at least one other network of heat pipes and / or at least one fluid loop of said device.
- a third particularly advantageous application relates to the thermal control of a mechanical part and is characterized in that at least one heat pipe network of said device is in heat exchange relationship with said mechanical part or integrated into said part, which we want to control the temperature, at least one heating element and at least one heat sink connected to at least one cooling element being placed in thermal contact with said heat pipe network for supplying or withdrawing heat from said network, and at least one temperature sensor measuring a variable physical quantity, representative of the temperature of said part, and whose measurement is compared to at least one reference value for controlling a change in the amount of heat to be supplied to or removed from said workpiece so as to reduce the difference resulting from said comparison.
- the two-dimensional network may be completely planar, or have curvatures in certain places in order to marry the shape of the room.
- This latter application can advantageously be used to provide thermal control of a large optical instrument focal plane.
- Figure la is a longitudinal or diametral sectional view of a grooved capillary heat pipe of the state of the art.
- FIG. 1b is a cross-section of the capillary heat pipe of FIG.
- FIG. 1c is a cross-section, similar to FIG. 1b, of a capillary heat pipe with porous structure or porous material of the state of the art
- FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic sectional view through a median plane of a co-current heat pipe in a network of simple interconnected capillary tubes and in closed loops, according to the state of the art known from US 6, 269, 865,
- FIG. 3 is a partial perspective view of a two-dimensional network of capillary heat pipes with intersecting grooves of the state of the art, these FIGS. 1a to 3 being already described above.
- FIG. 4a is a diagrammatic view of FIG. a two-dimensional network of intersecting and interconnected capillary heat pipes according to the invention, in section through an axial plane of the heat pipes,
- FIG. 4b is a view, on a larger scale and also in section through an axial plane of the heat pipes, of a node of the network of FIG. 4a to which four heat pipe branches are connected,
- FIG. 5 is a fragmentary exploded perspective view of two sections of complementary cut-out capillary heat-pipes sandwiching one into the other to form a first node variant of a two-dimensional network similar to that of FIG. 4a,
- FIG. 6a is a diagrammatic view, in section through an axial plane of the heat pipes, of a second variant node of a two-dimensional network such as that of FIG. 4a, with a four-branched cross-connect junction piece for connecting four branches of heat pipes between them,
- FIG. 6b is a perspective view of the four-branched cross of the node of FIG. 6a
- FIG. 6c is a perspective view of a 6-branch brace constituting the joining piece at a node of a three-dimensional network, for connecting 6 heat pipe branches of this network
- FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic view of perspective of an application of a device according to the invention, a network of interconnected capillary heat pipes cooperating with a capillary pump two-phase fluid loop for transferring heat from hot sources to a radiator, and
- FIG. 8 is a partial schematic cross-sectional view of another application of a device according to the invention, a heat pipe network of which is implemented in a structure carrying an active antenna, comprising radiofrequency tiles (RF ) to cool.
- RF radiofrequency tiles
- the generally two-dimensional, generally flat network 30 of FIG. 4a comprises two groups of parallel straight-line capillary heat pipes, regularly spaced apart from one another, and oriented, for each group, in one of two directions, respectively, which are perpendicular to each other. one to another.
- the first group comprises four heat pipes 31a, 31b, 31c and 3 Id, called “horizontal” in Figure 4a, crossed with the five heat pipes 31e, 31f, 31g, 31h and 31i called “vertical" of the second group, so that the heat pipes of each group are interconnected with the heat pipes of the other group at all points of their intersections or connections, inside and on the edges of a rectangle delimited by the heat pipes horizontal upper 31a and lower 3 Id of the first group, and the vertical and lateral heat pipes 31e and 31i of the second group.
- connection points constitute as many nodes of the network 30.
- the number of heat pipe branches connecting to a node of the network can vary.
- the network 30 considered here comprises nodes with four heat pipe branches such as the node 36 shown in enlarged view in FIG. 4b, where two successive branches 31b1 and 31b2 of a horizontal heat pipe such as 31b and the two are connected. successive branches 31fl and 31f2 of a vertical heat pipe such as 31f.
- the network 30 also comprises nodes with 3 branches such as the node 37, where are connected an end branch (the first or the last) such as 31bl of a horizontal heat pipe such as 31b or vertical, inside the rectangle of the network 30, and two successive branches such as 31el and 31e2 of a vertical or horizontal heat pipe of an edge of the network, such as 31e '.
- the network 30 further comprises two-branched nodes such as the node 38 located at a "corner" of the rectangular network 30 where an end branch such as 31al of a heat pipe of a horizontal edge such as 31a is connected with an end branch such as 31el of a vertical edge such as 31e of the network.
- the heat pipes and / or capillary heat pipe branches are of a type known from the state of the art and as described above with reference to FIGS.
- 1a-1c that is to say comprise a tube 32 enveloping a capillary structure for the circulation of the two-phase heat transfer fluid in the liquid phase, which surrounds a central channel 34 for the circulation of this fluid in the vapor phase, the capillary structure being constituted by longitudinal grooves formed in the inner face of the wall of the tube 32 or a porous annular structure 35, possibly of a porous material, as shown in FIG. 4a, and, on a larger scale, on the four-branched node 36 of FIG. 4b.
- these central channels 34 For heat transfer to be favorably effected by free circulation of the two-phase vapor-phase heat transfer fluid between the central channels 34 of all the heat pipe branches connected to the same node, these central channels 34, have a passage section, or at least a typical dimension of the channel 34, for example its diameter, which remains substantially constant and equal from one channel 34 to the other, and, where appropriate, in any conduit flow connecting the channels 34 of all heat pipe branches at the same node.
- a capillary continuity for the fluid in the liquid phase is ensured between the capillary structures such as all the branches of heat pipes connected to the same node 36 or 37 or 38, so that a liquid phase fluid exchange can occur.
- capillary action between these capillary structures 35 in such a way that fluid in the liquid phase flowing to a node in the capillary structure 35 of any of the heat pipe branches connected to this node can flow by capillarity in the capillary structures 35 of all other heat pipe branches connected to this node.
- the capillary structure 35 of each heat pipe branch leading to a knot is, as far as possible, abutted by its inner end (facing the center of the knot) against internal ends of the capillary structures 35 adjacent heat pipe branches connected to the same node. If these capillary structures are porous or porous structures such as in FIG. 4b, a satisfactory capillary continuity is ensured if there is no discontinuity between the porous structures 35 which exceeds the typical dimension of a pore of this structure 35 or porous material which constitutes it. In the case where the capillary structure of the heat pipe branches consists of grooves, as presented above, it is appropriate that the discontinuity between the capillary structures of the heat pipe branches resulting in the same node does not exceed the typical dimension of a groove.
- the fluid in the liquid phase can flow by capillarity in the zone situated at the center of the node, whose geometry is such that that the effects of surface tension are predominant on the effects of gravity or inertia.
- the capillary continuity for the fluid in the liquid phase is thus ensured in all directions between the different heat pipe branches. leading to the nodes and through the nodes 36, 37 and 38.
- a reservoir 39 of fluid is connected to the network 30.
- the reservoir 39 is connected to the network 30 by a branch 31g4 of the heat pipe 31g, which extends the latter towards the outside of the network 30.
- This reservoir 39 has its internal face lined with a capillary coating 40, which is in capillary continuity with the capillary structure of the connecting branch 31g4 of the reservoir 39 to the network 30.
- fluid in the liquid phase can circulate, in both directions, between the reservoir 39 and the network 30, by capillary flow in the capillary seal 40 of the reservoir 39 and the capillary structures 35 of the branch 31g4 and the other heat pipe branches of the network 30, and simultaneously fluid in the vapor phase can also flow, in both directions, between the central volume of the reservoir 39 and the central channels 34 of the branch 31g4 and other branches of
- the diameter or the passage section of the central channel 34 of the connecting branch 31g4 is smaller than the diameter or the passage section of the central channels 34 of the other heat pipe branches of the network 30, and / or the radial thickness of the capillary structure 35 of the connecting branch 31g4 is less than the thickness of the capillary structure 35 of the other heat pipe branches of the network 30.
- the grooved nature (in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the branch 31g4) or the porous nature of the internal capillary lining 40 of the reservoir 39 is the same as that of the capillary structure of the connecting branch 31g4, itself of the same nature as that of the capillary structures of the other heat pipe branches of the network 30, but this is not an absolute necessity.
- this capillary seal 40 is made in the form of a porous structure or a porous material.
- one or more of the heat pipes 31 of the network 30 may each comprise one or more branches which is different from the other branches of the heat pipes 31 from the network 30 to the plane dimensionally at the level of the central channel 34 and / or the capillary structure 35, and / or in terms of the nature of the capillary structure 35, for example a porous structure made of different porous materials in different heat pipe branches of the network.
- FIG. 5 represents an embodiment of a 4-branch node, made by interconnecting two capillary heat pipes of rectangular cross-section of a network (not represented elsewhere) at their intersection.
- the two heat pipes 41 are identical to each other and each consists of a tube 42, metal or plastic, whose inner wall is lined with a tubular capillary structure 43, in this example a porous structure or a porous material of substantially constant thickness, surrounding a central channel 44, the tube 42, the capillary structure 43 and the channel 44 having a rectangular cross section.
- a cutout 45 is made in each of them, so as to form a recessed area 46 of intersection and interconnection.
- This cutout 45 extends through the tube 42 and the capillary structure 43, over an axial length (along the axis of the heat pipe 41) equal to the width of the large faces of the heat pipes 41, and between two straight sections of the heat pipe 41 ( perpendicular to the axis of the heat pipe 41) in each of which the cutout 45 extends over a half-perimeter of the heat pipe 41, through a large face (for example the large horizontal face and upper) of the heat pipe 41, and on the half height of the two vertical sides of the heat pipe 41.
- a heat pipe 41a belonging to a first group of heat pipes (not shown) parallel and spaced apart, is returned, so that its intersection zone 46 is turned down, and nested by this zone 46 in the zone d recessed intersection 46 of the other heat pipe 41b, whose longitudinal axis is oriented perpendicular to that of the heat pipe 41a, and which belongs to a second group of heat pipes (also not shown) parallel and spaced apart.
- the central channels 44 of the two heat pipes 41a and 41b are reconstituted by being interconnected, as well as the capillary structures 43, brought into contact along the cuts 45 so as to reconstitute a capillary continuity.
- the two tubes 42 nested one inside the other at the cutouts 45 of complementary shapes are then welded to one another along the cutouts 45, in order to restore the tightness of the tubes.
- FIG. 6a A second embodiment of a four-branch heat pipe node is now described with reference to Figure 6a, for application to the realization of a two-dimensional array similar to that of Figure 4a.
- This second embodiment is much more advantageous than that described above with reference to FIG. 5, because it makes it possible to overcome the aforementioned limitations of the latter, and therefore, in particular, to easily make networks not only two dimensions but also to three dimensions, and / or to use heat pipes of the state of the art, whose capillary structure can be both grooved and porous.
- the heat pipes used may have cross sections whose shapes are not necessarily limited to circular, rectangular or square shapes.
- the interconnection of all the different branches of heat pipes 51 leading to the same node of the network is made in a modular manner, via a connecting piece 55 or connection, also called cross in the FIG. 6a illustrates a node in which four branches of heat pipes 51 are connected, two of which, horizontal in FIG. 6a, belong to a first group of heat pipes, and the other two of which, vertical in FIG. 6a, and perpendicular to two first, belong to a second group of heat pipes crisscrossed and interconnected with the heat pipes of the first group in a network similar to that of Figure 4a, and no longer described or represented.
- the joining piece 55 is hollow and comprises as many tubular junction branches 56 as the number of heat pipe branches 51 interconnected by this piece 55 at the corresponding node of the network.
- Each junction branch 56 has the same general structure as the heat pipe branches 51, each of which comprises, as known, a rigid outer tube 52 enveloping an annular capillary structure 53 (for the circulation by capillarity of the fluid in the liquid phase) constituted preferably longitudinal grooves formed in the inner face of the tube 52 in the example of Figure 6a, but may also be a porous structure or a porous material covering the inner wall of the tube 52, the capillary structure 53 itself surrounding a central channel 54 (for inertial circulation of the vapor phase fluid essentially).
- each connecting branch 56 comprises a rigid outer tube 57, by which this branch 56 is secured to the other branches 56 and in one piece with them forming the joining piece 55, this tube 57 having its inner wall covered an annular capillary structure 58 (for the capillary circulation of the fluid in the liquid phase) advantageously produced by a porous structure or a porous material, and itself surrounding a central channel 59 (essentially for circulation of the vapor phase fluid) .
- each of the heat pipe branches 51 interconnected with each other at the corresponding node is held, by its end facing the junction piece or spider 55, against the so-called outer end, because turned on the opposite side to the center of the brace 55, a connecting leg 56 corresponding, so that the two branches 51 and 56 are maintained aligned and end to end, while the central channel 59 of each junction branch 56 is in communication, at the so-called internal end of the junction branch 56, c ' that is, its end facing the center of the spider 55, with the central channels 59 of all the other connecting branches 56 of the spider 55.
- each connecting branch 56 of the spider 55 the central channel 59 of this junction branch 56 is in communication with the central channel 54 of the corresponding heat pipe branch 51, the flow continuity of the fluid in substantially vapor phase is ensured in all directions of the branches of heat pipes 51 and through the node by the permanent communication of the central channels 59 junction branches 56 between them and with the central channels 54 of the heat pipe branches 51.
- the cross 55 provides a capillary continuity between the capillary structure 58 of each junction branch 56, at the outer end of the latter, with the capillary structure 53 of the corresponding heat pipe branch 51, while at the inner end of said junction branch 56, its capillary structure 58 is in capillary continuity with the similar capillary structure 58 of each of the other junction branches 56 of the spider 55.
- the branches 56 of the spider 55 are dimensionally and geometrically adapted to the heat pipe branches 51 to which they are connected, in particular the branches 51 and 56 have substantially the same shape and cross-sectional area, and in particular substantially the same external diameter, thickness of the capillary structures 53 and 58, and diameter of the central channels 54 and 59.
- the tubes 57 of the spider 55 may consist of the same material as the tubes 52 of the heat pipe branches 51, the latter being welded to the branches 56 of the spider 55, after possibly interlocking the ends of the heat pipe branches 51 in sleeves formed by extensions to the outside of the tube 57 of the branches 56 of the spider 55.
- the capillary structure 53 of the heat pipe branches 51 is constituted by grooves
- the capillary structure 58 of the connecting branches 56 of the spider 55 is a porous structure or a porous material, so that this capillary structure 58 has a high permeability
- the porous structure or the porous material which constitutes it preferably has a pore diameter less than or equal to about twice the opening of the grooves of the capillary structure 53, in order to facilitate the flow fluid in the liquid phase.
- this value can change depending on the wettability characteristics of the coolant used on the different materials used.
- the capillary structure 58 of the branches 56 of the spider 55 it is then advantageous for the capillary structure 58 of the branches 56 of the spider 55 to have a high permeability having a pore diameter substantially less than or equal to the pore diameter of the porous structure or of the porous material constituting the capillary structure of the heat pipe branches 51, this value also being able to vary as a function of the wettability characteristics of the fluid on the various materials used.
- the embodiment of the capillary structure 58 of the branches 56 of the spider 55 with the aid of a porous structure or of a porous material is advantageous in view of the complex shape of the spider 55, whereas, for simplicity of embodiment, the capillary structure 53 of the heat pipe branches 51 is often made by internal grooves extruded into the mass of the tubes 52.
- this type of braces 55 several methods can be implemented, among which are the processes based on the simple sintering, laser sintering or stereo-lithography.
- the two or three connecting branches respectively have the same structure and cooperate in the same way with each other and with branches of heat pipes 51 that the branches 56 of the spider 55, when respectively three or two branches of heat pipes 51 are connected to the same node, does not pose any particular problem since the heat pipe 51 of the network may consist of standard heat pipes already marketed, the capillary structure is either grooved profile or porous.
- Figure 6b shows in perspective the spider 55 of Figure 6a in an embodiment in which the connecting legs 56 and their tube 57, capillary structure 58 and central channel 59 are cylindrical circular cross section.
- FIG. 6c represents, in exploded perspective, a six-branched node of a three-dimensional network, made on the same principle of intersecting and interconnecting the heat pipes of three groups of rectilinear heat pipes, parallel and spaced apart, oriented for each group in one of three directions respectively perpendicular two by two, the interconnection being ensured, at each node, by a hollow joining piece with tubular connecting legs which, in Figure 6c, is a spider 65 to six junction branches 66.
- junction branches 66 has the particularity of having two additional junction branches 66, symmetrical to each other with respect to the center of the crosspiece 65, and coaxial about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the two perpendicular axes between them and around each of which two of the other four junction branches 66 are coaxial.
- each junction branch 66 is cylindrical tubular of circular section and consists of an outer tube 67 whose inner wall is covered with a porous capillary structure 58 surrounding itself a central channel 69, and the opposite ends of the six branches of heat pipes 61 which are connected to the crosspieces 65 are, also, as in the example of Figures 6a and 6b, consisting of a rigid outer tube 62, the inner wall is axially grooved for forming its capillary structure 63 around a central channel 64.
- a spider can be adapted to connect any number of heat pipe branches, typically from two to eight, in two- or three-dimensional networks.
- a network two or three-dimensional, as described above, for example, the two-dimensional network 70 of interconnected heat pipes 71. of FIG. 7, similar to the network 30 of FIG.
- each hot source 72a, 72b, 72c can be placed directly in heat exchange relation with one or more hot sources such as 72a, 72b and 72c, so that a heat exchange is established between each hot source 72a, 72b, 72c, and one or more elements of the network 70, such as branches of heat pipes 71, nodes or even meshes of the network 70, each mesh consisting of four branches of heat pipes 71 connected in pairs by four nodes so as to form a closed loop in the network 70 (in Figure 7, each hot source 72a to 72c is shown schematically as covering a mesh respectively of the network 70, and is therefore in thermal contact with the four branches of heat pipes 71 and the four knots of this mesh).
- the network 70 can thus efficiently collect the heat produced by one, several, or all the hot sources 72a to 72c and homogenize the temperature of the assembly.
- One or more of the hot springs 72a to 72c may or may be of a so-called "point" nature, in particular heat dissipating elements such as equipment, components or electronic circuits fixed directly on the heat pipe network or possibly on a load-bearing wall, the sources each being in thermal contact with a portion of the network 70, at different points of this network, either directly or via an intermediate piece providing thermal conduction between the network and the hot springs.
- point heat dissipating elements such as equipment, components or electronic circuits fixed directly on the heat pipe network or possibly on a load-bearing wall, the sources each being in thermal contact with a portion of the network 70, at different points of this network, either directly or via an intermediate piece providing thermal conduction between the network and the hot springs.
- one or more of the hot springs 72a to 72c may or may be of a "continuous” nature, and consist for example of structure (s) it (s) itself (s) heated by external sources and in thermal contact with part of the network 70.
- another part of the network 70 is in direct heat exchange relation with a cold source, such as 72c, which can -being of a "one-off” nature, such as a cold finger of a refrigerating element for example, or of a "continuous” nature, such as a radiator cooled by an external source, to which the radiator transmits heat that he receives from the network 70.
- a cold source such as 72c
- this other variant consists in putting the whole network 70 of heat pipes 71 in thermal contact with one or hot springs, respectively cold, except at least one branch of heat pipes 71 and / or at least one node of the network, which is or is in thermal contact with at least one cold source, respectively hot.
- the device makes it possible, by the liquid / vapor phase and vapor / liquid phase changes of the two-phase heat transfer fluid circulating in the network 70, to efficiently collect heat diffused by one or more hot sources (s) such ( s) that 72a and 72b, by evaporation of the fluid, and transfer it through the network 70 to a source (s) cold (s), such (s) 72c, where the fluid condenses to return by capillarity to the hot source (s).
- hot sources such ( s) that 72a and 72b
- Such a thermal regulation device can therefore be used, passively and indifferently, to cool one or more hot source (s) (such as 72a e 72b) and / or to heat one or more source (s) cold (s)
- the heat transfer fluid used being adapted to the operating temperatures of the device, for example ammonia for operating temperatures of between -40 ° C. and + 100 ° C.
- the device further comprises at least one fluid loop, for example, a capillary pumping loop of a two-phase heat transfer fluid, which is advantageously the same as that of the network 70 of heat pipes 71, for transporting the heat of the network 71 to at least one cold source, or conversely of at least one hot source to the network 70, because such fluid loops are known to be much more efficient than the heat pipes (with equal mass), to transport a significant heat flow from one point to another.
- at least one fluid loop for example, a capillary pumping loop of a two-phase heat transfer fluid, which is advantageously the same as that of the network 70 of heat pipes 71, for transporting the heat of the network 71 to at least one cold source, or conversely of at least one hot source to the network 70, because such fluid loops are known to be much more efficient than the heat pipes (with equal mass), to transport a significant heat flow from one point to another.
- the evaporation zone 74 of a fluid loop 73 is placed in thermal contact with the network 70, in this example at a node where three heat pipe branches 71 are interconnected on an edge of the network 70, and the condensation zone 74 of the fluid loop 73 is placed in thermal contact with at least one cold source 76 in this example, an external radiator, the hot sources may be heat dissipating equipment, possibly attached to a load-bearing wall, the cold source 76 (the radiator) being optionally remote and remote network 70 and hot springs 72a to 72c .
- the heat transmitted by the hot springs 72a to 72c to the network 70 is transferred to the evaporation zone 74 to the fluid of the fluid loop 73, which is vaporized at this point and flows in the vapor phase to the zone of condensation 75, where this heat is transferred by condensation of the fluid of the loop 73 to the radiator 76 which dissipates it in the heat sink constituted by the surrounding space.
- Such a device can be used in an inverted mode for heating at least one cold source 72a to 72c in thermal contact with the network 70.
- the evaporation zone 75 of the fluid loop 73 is brought into contact thermal with a hot source 76, external to the network 70, and the condensation zone 74 of the fluid loop 73 is placed in thermal contact with the network 70.
- the network 70 of heat pipes 71 of the device can be fixed on a thermally conductive skin (not shown), for example metal or composite material, and preferably between two skins of this type.
- the heat collected by the network 70 is evacuated either by an extension of the network 70, or via at least one fluid loop such as 73, to one or more cold source (s) such (s) one or radiator (s) 76.
- At least a part of a two or three-dimensional network of heat pipes can be advantageously integrated into the mass of a structure, whose temperature must eventually to be actively controlled.
- This structure may be a carrier structure on which at least one hot source and / or at least one cold source is or are fixed (s).
- FIG. 8 Such an application for cooling an active radiofrequency tile antenna is described with reference to FIG. 8.
- the network 80 of heat pipes 81 is represented only by two parallel heat pipes 81 oriented in the one of the two directions of this two-dimensional network 80.
- Each heat pipe 81 comprises a flat sole, made of a good heat-conducting material, in one piece with a hemicylindrical central portion through which the tube 82 of the heat pipe 81 passes, the internal wall of which presents the grooves of its capillary structure 83 around the central channel 84 corresponding.
- each heat pipe 81 is suspended in a channel 86 formed in a rib 87, oriented in the same direction as the heat pipes 81, a carrier structure 88 in the form of grid, which has ribs similar to the ribs 87 but perpendicular to the latter, and also provided with gutters such as 86, for housing the heat pipe network 80 which are perpendicular to the heat pipes 81.
- the carrying structure 88 supports radiofrequency tiles (RF) 85 thinned edges to rest on the ribs such as 87, being arranged next to each other to define a surface of the active antenna.
- RF tiles 85 have similar dimensional characteristics and are arranged in a matrix, but the thermal powers they dissipate are possibly different from each other.
- the tiles 85 thus arranged regularly on the carrying structure 88 transmit heat to the soles of the heat pipes 81 on which the tiles 85 rest, and this heat is then transmitted from the heat pipes 81 of the network 80 to an evaporator 89, integrated into the base.
- the heat collected by the network 80 of heat pipes 81 integrated in the carrying structure 88 is effectively evacuated to one or more radiators by an extension of this network 80.
- the structure carrying at least one hot source and / or at least one cold source may advantageously be constituted by a network of heat pipes itself of the device.
- the mass of the entire device is thus limited, in which the function of said heat pipe network is twofold and comprises a thermal transport / homogenization function of the heat, and a mechanical function for supporting / maintaining the dissipative equipment constituting the one or more hot or cold source (s).
- the thermal regulation device of the invention can also be applied to the production of a device for controlling the temperature of at least one heat pipe network of the device and / or at least one hot source and / or at least one cold source and / or at least one part and / or at least one set with respectively which and / or which at least one heat pipe network of the device is in heat exchange relation, or even in which and / or which said at least one heat pipe network of the device is integrated at least partially.
- At least one temperature sensor and / or at least one cooling element and / or at least one heating element are placed in heat exchange relation with said network, at different locations of the latter, and at least one setpoint of thermal power to be transferred by said at least one cooling element and / or said at least one heating element is applied to this or these cooler (s) or heating element (s) as a function of at least one temperature difference observed between at least one temperature setpoint and at least one temperature measurement provided by at least said one temperature sensor.
- the thermal properties of the heat pipe network enable the latter to quickly uniformize the temperature within the mechanical part.
- at least one heating element and / or at least one heat sink connected to at least one cooling element, and placed in thermal contact with said network can or can respectively bring or remove heat to said network, by increasing or thus lowering the temperature of the mechanical part respectively.
- At least one temperature sensor is implanted in the device so as to measure a variable representative of the temperature of the room, and can therefore be used to actively control the temperature of this mechanical part, by comparing the measurement of said at least one a temperature sensor to at least one reference value, and varying the amount of heat supplied to or removed from the part, as a function of the difference resulting from the comparison between said measurement and said reference value in order to reduce said difference.
- this type of temperature control device and temperature control of a mechanical part can be advantageously used to provide thermal control of a large focal plane optical instrument.
- the damaging consequences of a failure of an interconnected heat pipe network may be limited, or even completely compensated, if the device is arranged to be redundant, for example by having at least two non-interconnected networks, preferably identical but not necessarily, or by subdividing the network into several non-interconnected subnetworks, but advantageously maintaining said at least two networks or subnets in heat exchange relationship with each other.
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