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Rotary Vapor Compression Cycle Final Report

Kariya, Harumichi A.; Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Staats, Wayne L.

While there are several heat pump technologies such thermoelectric, adsorption and magnetocaloric cycles, the oldest and most widely used is the vapor compression cycle (VCC). Currently, thermoelectric cycles have not yet achieved efficiencies nor cooling capacities comparable to VCCs. Adsorption cycles offer the benefit of using low-quality heat as the energy input, but are significantly more complex and expensive and are therefore limited to certain niche applications. Magnetocaloric cycles are still in the research phase. Consequently, improvements made for VCCs will likely have the most immediate and encompassing impact. The objective of this work is to develop an alternative VCC topology to reduce the above inefficiencies.

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TYPE Other Report YEAR 2018
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Development and Testing of an Integrated Sandia Cooler Thermoelectric Device (SCTD)

Johnson, Terry A.; Staats, Wayne L.; Leick, Michael T.; Zimmerman, Mark D.; Radermacher, Reinhard; Martin, Cara; Nasuta, Dennis; Kalinowski, Paul; Hoffman, William

This report describes a FY14 effort to develop an integrated Sandia Cooler T hermoelectric D evice (SCTD) . The project included a review of feasible thermoelectric (TE) cooling applications, baseline performance testing of an existing TE device, analysis and design development of an integrated SCTD assembly, and performance measurement and validation of the integrated SCTD prototype.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2014
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Development of the Sandia Cooler

Johnson, Terry A.; Hecht, Ethan S.; Spencer, Nathan S.; Vanness, Justin W.; Gorman, Ryan G.; Koplow, Jeffrey P.; Staats, Wayne L.; Curgus, Dita B.; Leick, Michael T.; Matthew, Ned D.; Zimmerman, Mark D.; Arienti, Marco A.; Gharagozloo, Patricia E.

This report describes an FY13 effort to develop the latest version of the Sandia Cooler, a breakthrough technology for air-cooled heat exchangers that was developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The project was focused on fabrication, assembly and demonstration of ten prototype systems for the cooling of high power density electronics, specifically high performance desktop computers (CPUs). In addition, computational simulation and experimentation was carried out to fully understand the performance characteristics of each of the key design aspects. This work culminated in a parameter and scaling study that now provides a design framework, including a number of design and analysis tools, for Sandia Cooler development for applications beyond CPU cooling.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2013
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