Direct Thermal Transport (DTT)

Abstract

Direct Thermal Transport focused on the fundamental and significant improvement of thermal transfer between fluid and the source surfaces. The significant improvement of this transfer capacity and efficiency, would remove the bottleneck of the whole system, as well as possibility of simplifying the system design. This invention detailed the approach, means of how higher speed flow fluid that is sent to scrubbing the heat source surface through a prolonged contact can attain accelerated speed, swirl and therefore able to improve the heat transfer effect. With this improvement, Direct Thermal Transport is made possible. This patent also described some examples of how this could be achieved. Through these means, other advantages are derived. These include improving capacity of heat transported per unit of fluid used, reducing possibilities of choked fins, the usage of exhaust fluid to induce secondary inlets of fresh fluid to the source, the easier means for removing single point of failures and incorporating fault-tolerant to heat transfer systems.

1 . A Thermal Transport System having means for guiding entry of fluid(s), via guided entry, or entries, through one, or more, long adequately guided smooth passage, or passages, assisted the fluid to gain higher velocity and swirl components, and exit with very high velocity and swirl, at one or more exits. Such high velocity and swirl vectors at the exit, or exits, provide means for inducing secondary entries of fluid at the eyes of exits, to further improve the thermal transport capacity.  
     
     
         2 . Said guided entry (ies) of fluid provides means for improving the control over the source, condition and quantity of fluid into the system.  
     
     
         3 . Said guided entry of fluids provides the means to make possible usage of, more efficient usage of, higher speed, higher pressure fluid.  
     
     
         4 . Said guided long smooth passage(s) provides the means for guiding the fluid through longer and closer contacts with the target surface, for heated or cooling, etc.  
     
     
         5 . Said longer and closer contacts provide the means to improve the quantity of heat transferable between the target surface and the fluid, directly.  
     
     
         6 . Said guided passage, provide the means for more efficient usage of higher speed, higher pressure fluid.  
     
     
         7 . Said guided passage provides the means for reducing leakages, losses, noise.  
     
     
         8 . Said guided smooth passage(s) provides the mean for gaining higher speed and higher swirl to improve the effectiveness of thermal transport between the heated surface and the fluid.  
     
     
         9 . Said means for gaining higher speed and swirl further provide the means for increasing the velocity, swirl of the fluid beyond the intake conditions.  
     
     
         10 . Said means for gaining higher speed and swirl further provide the means to reduce fluidic laminar insulation, low speed and/or stagnation of fluid in contact with the target surface, or in any part of the flow path there within.  
     
     
         11 . Said means for gaining higher speed and swirl further provide the means for self-cleaning of the passages, which enable the means to remove the risk of choked passages.  
     
     
         12 . Said means for gaining higher speed and swirl further provide additional means to even out steep temperature difference on the system surface, beyond what the system, by it self, could achieve.  
     
     
         13 . Said means for one or more multiple passages of fluids provide the means for improving total fluid flow.  
     
     
         14 . Said means for multiple passages of fluids further provide the means to isolate of critical components, overcome risk of passage choked, passage collapsed, etc.  
     
     
         15 . Said means for multiple passage of fluid further provide the means to target at extreme heat loads concentration, skewed heat-load, and actively provide additional means to preemptively isolate, overcome extreme skewed distribution of thermal energy.  
     
     
         16 . Multiple passages and/or the long smooth guided passages provided means for placement of multiple fluid movers at entries of multiple passages, and/or along the guided long smooth passage(s).  
     
     
         17 . Said means for installation of multiple fluid movers further provides means to remove single point of failure.  
     
     
         18 . Said means for installation of multiple fluid movers further provides the means for ease of scalability.  
     
     
         19 . Said means for installation of multiple fluid movers further made possible the means for hot swap during operations.  
     
     
         20 . Means for inducing secondary entry of fresh fluid is made possible by the means to achieve very high swirl and velocity of the exit fluid.  
     
     
         21 . With said means to achieve adequately high swirl and velocity at the exits, it provides the means to induce secondary inlet of fluid, which would be also of very high velocity and swirl.  
     
     
         22 . With said means to achieve adequate high swirl and velocity at the exits, it provides adequate means for inducing, starting and directing the secondary entry of fresh fluid to the center of the exit onto the heated surfaces.  
     
     
         23 . Means for improving the directional property of exhaust fluid to reduce effect to surround environment.