Heat Pipe Heat Exchangers with Double Isolation Layers for Prevention of Interpath Leakage

Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc.

Lancaster, PA

• The technology is a heat pipe heat exchanger that is low mass and provides two levels of isolation between fluid streams.

• 2011 Tibbetts Award winner.
• Successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the technology through subscale heat exchanger design and testing.
• Phase II results elevated technology to TRL 6 (prototype demonstration in a relevant environment).

• Non-NASA applications include naval turbine bleed air coolers, ammonia refrigeration plants, food or pharmaceutical processing, industrial chemical processing, and telecommunication outdoor cabinet cooling.
• Advanced Cooling Technologies is developer and manufacturer of heat pipes, pumped liquid and two-phase loops, and thermal storage devices.
• Advanced Cooling Technologies currently serves customers worldwide in electronics, medical equipment, energy systems, calibration equipment, aerospace, military, and Government R&D sectors.

• NASA applications of the heat pipe heat exchanger technology include thermal control of manned spacecraft in the Space Shuttle Program, the International Space Station, and the planned crew exploration vehicles for moon and Mars exploration missions.
• Intended application is for thermal control of crew compartment and electronic equipment onboard manned spacecraft.

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