An Assessment of Immersion Cooling for Power Electronics: An Oil Volume Case Study
| Autor: | Rafael A. Silva, Thales A. C. Maia, Iago Tourinho Oliveira Pereira, Igor A. Pires, Braz de Jesus Cardoso Filho, Osvane A. Faria |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Convection Natural convection business.industry 020209 energy 020208 electrical & electronic engineering Mechanical engineering 02 engineering and technology Dissipation Computational fluid dynamics 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Physics::Fluid Dynamics Control and Systems Engineering Power electronics 0103 physical sciences Heat transfer Oil immersion 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Immersion (virtual reality) Environmental science Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Power density |
| Zdroj: | IAS |
| ISSN: | 1939-9367 0093-9994 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tia.2020.2975762 |
| Popis: | Power electronics demand appropriate heat dissipation to secure life span, reliability, and power density. Among several cooling methods, oil immersion is an efficient and cost effective one. Natural convection is the most reliable considering the lack of pumps and fans compared to other practical ways of immersion cooling. This article brings a case study of a power electronics device submerged in an oil tank, the same one used for power transformers. Using computational fluid dynamics simulations and an experimental setup, the natural convection process is demonstrated as well as the better heat flow dissipation of oil immersion cooling. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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