A Heat Pipe Design for ARIES-ST Center Post
ARIES Electronic Project Meeting
December 4, 1998
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Fundamentals of Operating Principles
- The heat pipes operate on a closed two-phase cycle.
- The heat pipes utilize the latent heat of vaporization (as opposed to sensible heat) to transfer heat with very small temperature gradient.
- Heat pipes utilize some sort of capillary wicking structure to promote the flow of liquid from the condenser to the evaporator.
- Heat pipes can operate in a horizontal orientation, microgravity or where we must pump the liquid against gravity.
- The heat pipes operate as a thermal super conducting device.
Fig. 1. A Schematic of a heat pipe.