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Abstract
Vacuum spray flash evaporation cooling (VSFEC) is considered as an alternative effective method for dissipating high heat flux in the field of space thermal control. In this paper, a VSFEC experiment system has been developed to investigate the influence of spray flow rate and spray height on the heat transfer characteristics of VSFEC. The experiment results show that the heat flux can be removed efficiently from the heat source in VSFEC system with a very small spray flow rate, which is only one third of that of conventional spray cooling under the same heat flux. And an optimal flow rate exists in VSFEC, at which the heat transfer approaches to a highest value, it is different from conventional spray cooling in which the heat flux increases with the increasing of spray flow rate all the time, in VSFEC, the heat flux firstly increases and then decreases with increasing of flow rate. Since VSFEC system is an open-loop heat dissipation system, it has very important significance that based on the optimal flow rate to reduce working medium consumption, especially for space thermal control system which has a strict limit on weight. In addition, spray height has an important effect on the heat transfer characteristics of VSFEC and an optimal spray height is also obtained at which the maximum value of heat flux can be achieved.
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