Hydraulic and thermal characteristics of a vapor venting two-phase microchannel heat exchanger

Abstract In the present work we design, model and experimentally characterize a two-phase vapor venting parallel microchannel heat exchanger capped with a 220 nm pore, hydrophobic PTFE membrane that vents the vapor phase into separate vapor transport channels. We compare the performances of a traditional non-venting heat exchanger and the vapor-separating version operating at heat fluxes of up to 820 kW/m2 and water mass fluxes of between 102 and 420 kg/s m2. We find ∼60% improvement in the normalized pressure drop and up to 4.4 °C reduction in the average substrate temperature between the control and vapor venting device under similar operating conditions.

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