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28 March 2024
 
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Thermal Rectification of Solid-liquid Phase Change Thermal Diode under the Effect of Supercooling
Zhaonan Meng ; Raza Gulfam ; Peng Zhang ; Fei Ma ;
Date 23 Jul 2020
AbstractThermal rectification ratios of solid-liquid phase change thermal diodes (SL-PCTDs) are not sustainable beyond a certain temperature bias, necessitating reasonably compatible designs. Manipulating the heat transfer in the forward and reverse directions of the SL-PCTD is of great practical interest to achieve persistent performance. Herein, a SL-PCTD prototype is investigated under the supercooling effect of a phase change material (calcium chloride hexahydrate). In the forward direction, supercooling effect plays a significant role in sustaining natural convection far below the melting temperature (30 C), which leads to robust heat transfer within a temperature bias of 10-40 C. While in the reverse direction, dislodging the supercooling via manual supercooling release (MSR) within a large temperature range of 30-7 C tends to greatly inhibit heat transfer. As a consequence, thermal rectification ratio of 2.95 is achieved, which is competitively sustainable at large temperature bias compared to the SL-PCTD without supercooling effect. To address the effect of supercooling on thermal rectification comprehensively, thermal resistance approach is applied to theoretically model the SL-PCTD, which shows a good agreement with experimental data. Such a device with supercooling control in only one direction is further named as the SL-PCTD with gating functionality, where manipulating supercooling effect of phase change material opens up a feasible avenue for enabling generalized thermal diode.
Source arXiv, 2007.11727
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