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Rotary Vapor Compression Cycle Final Report

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

Few technologies are as prevalent in modern everyday life as space heating and cooling. Space heating and cooling dictates the level of comfort experienced inside a building, and can even have effects on productivity. At an extreme scale, space heating and cooling enables places such as subzero Alaska and scorching hot Arizona to be more widely inhabited. Aside from moderating comfort, space cooling facilitates the proliferation of other technologies: temperature and humidity control is important for semiconductor and pharmaceutical laboratories, as well as for the optimal operation of high performance computing centers/data centers.

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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 R.; Martin, Cara M.; Nasuta, Dennis N.; Kalinowski, Paul K.; Hoffman, William H.

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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