Pumped Liquid Multiphase Cooling

The performance limits of conventional cooling technologies are being reached in both military and commercial electronics and electro-optical systems. Pumped Liquid Multiphase Cooling (PLMC) provides significantly enhanced thermal management capabilities for these systems using mostly-conventional components and working fluids. PLMC is highly scalable and reliable. Energy efficiency is very high, surpassing conventional techniques by up to two orders of magnitude. This paper describes the basic PLMC technology and presents experimental results from several prototype embodiments of the technology.Copyright © 2004 by ASME