nandyputra@eng.ui.ac.id
1994 – Mechanical Engineering, Universitas Indonesia
2002 – Mechanical Engineering, Helmut-Schmidt-Universitat, Hamburg, Germany
Heat pipes can be employed to save energy and cool various products like air conditioners and batteries so the desired temperature can be achieved on target. Indonesia has a great opportunity to develop them since they are still rarely developed.
Due to its increased temperature, an overheated mobile phone is prone to an explosion that will damage it. Therefore, mobile phone manufacturers worldwide use heat pipes to keep mobile phones cool to secure and maintain the mobile phone’s safety and security. There are many other uses of heat pipe technology to be applied in other electronic devices.
Heat Pipe is a heat transfer technology using a specific size pipe containing liquid as a working fluid to conduct heat from the hot end (evaporator) to the other end as a cooler (condenser). The pipe is usually made of aluminum, copper, or nickel-plated copper. Heat pipe serves as an application that can be applied in a cooling system.
The heat pipe is used to cool an electronic component. It can also be used in an air conditioner, refrigerator, laptop, or notebook to reduce the component‘s working temperature. In an air conditioner, the heat pipe strengthens its cooling coil performance to save more energy. Due to its ability to release heat, the heat pipe is also used by smartphones, game consoles, and computer components emitting a large number of heat fluxes such as VGA, mainboard chipset, and memory chipsets. Heat Pipe is employed to cool down an electric car’s battery currently rife, making it safe from any combustion hazards.
Heat pipe consists of the evaporator on one end, where heat is absorbed and liquid is evaporated; the condenser on the other end, where steam is condensed and heat is released; and the adiabatic part located in between. Adiabatic is a condition with no heat transfer from or to the surrounding environment. The working fluid in the heat pipe changes in phases and flows naturally through the capillary axis of the heat pipe.
Advantages
Empirically, a heat pipe is much more capable of conducting heat than aluminum, copper, or even silver. Moreover, it can drain more heat without any additional energy or with passive cooling. Heat transfer from this type of heat pipe is very popular because it is well-performed in energy conservation. Moreover, it is environmentally friendly since the heat pipe can recover waste heat from the exhaust gas and can be applied to cool industrial and household machinery.