Experimental Thermal Analysis of Heat Sink

Our Project is based on the study and analysis of Heat Sinks.A Heat Sink is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid  medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, ther

Project Title

Experimental Thermal Analysis of Heat Sink

Project Area of Specialization

Mechanical Engineering

Project Summary

Our Project is based on the study and analysis of Heat Sinks.A Heat Sink is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid  medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, thereby allowing regulation of the device's temperature.

We will be actually using and comparing two types of Heat Sinks with each other which is never been done before.The two Heat Sinks we are using in this project are Straight type and splayed type HS.A closed tunnel shaped model would be made in which we will place the two sinks and take out the results.While making the tunnel our main focus will be on two important parameters,one is the "Thermal Competence" and the other is "Pressure Drop".

Project Objectives

• To work on different Heat Sinks and study the change.
• Making it easier for the user to select the best Heat Sink in different cooling purposes.
• Ensuring how important a Heat Sink is for our compnents.

Project Implementation Method

• Regulated speed fan will automatically vary speed when temperature/pressure rises to make it steady.
• Air will enters from Inlet and pass through heaters resulting hot air to show the temperature rise.
• Hot air will then pass through sensors which will measure air degree of hotness and transfer the value to microcontroller.
• Micro Controller will decide to vary the outlet fan speed.

Benefits of the Project

As the temperature of electronic devices increases,their failure rate increases. That is why electrical devices should be cooled,and for these cooling purposes Heat Sinks are used.

After the completion of this project we will be able to help the users selecting the best Heat Sink for their different cooling purposes.A complete report would be published on the study analysis and comparison of different Heat Sinks which would be helpful for the industrial applications.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

In the market there are huge number of design models of heat sink are available.After a particular research and study we finalize our hardware design on the basis of cost, availability and easily handling.Our hardware would be made up of glass material.

A tunnel is made up of a glass material which is 18 inch in length and 5-inch width. A tunnel is completely insulated with a aluminum foil which is commonly used in refrigerators to maintain their cooling phenomena and easily available on electric shops. Secondly, we placed a mud plates in bottom of tunnel because due to excessive heat from the heater the heat will not be transferred to the glass material. These plates are commonly used in gas heaters.in tunnel our sink is placed on heater and blower is paced at one end of the tunnel. Sensors are also placed in the tunnel.

For calculating the values from the sensors in hardware, we manually turn on the switches one by one from S1 to S6. The values of temperature and pressure drop are stored into the internal memory of the Arduino mega2560. By using the computer language C the proper code for Arduino is burned into the Arduino mega2560. In which all the formulas are added in the form of code. And finally, a result is shown on LCD.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Manufacturing

Other Industries

Core Technology

Others

Other Technologies

Clean Tech

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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