Design of the Cooling Module of LEDs Based on the Aluminum-Acetone Flat Plate Heat Pipe

Abstract

The waste heat generated by high power LEDs is hardly effectively dissipated, therefore, it results in a serious problem in the luminous efficiency. The most important issue of the LED research is to find a potential design of heat removal and solve the problem of LED over-heating. The purpose of this study is to design the LEDs combined with the cooling module of the aluminum-acetone flat plate heat pipe by the experiment for the high efficiency of heat removal. The aluminum-acetone flat plate heat pipe is innovative proposed by our team. The high power LEDs with and without heat pipe cooling module is compared. The heat removal efficiency of the cooling module of the aluminum-acetone flat plate heat pipe reaches 77% and drops the junction temperature of LED about 36 °C. The cooling module of the aluminum-acetone flat plate heat pipe has proven to be effective in solving the heat concentration problems associated with the LED chips. In short, the phase change cooling module will apply on the electronic component of high heat concentration for more effective cooling method.