Self-pumping liquid and gas cooling system for the cooling of solar cells and heat-generating elements

Abstract

A self-pumping liquid and gas cooling system for the cooling of solar cells and heat generating elements. A method for the self-pumping of liquid and gas coolants utilizes the cooling system. The essentially closed coolant system incorporates a heat exchanger having a length meandering tubing passing therethrough the opposite ends of which are, respectively, in communication with a driving pump and a return pump that are interconnected by a shaft. Hereby, tubing intermediate the circuit formed by the pumps extends through an evaporator structure containing the chip or heat-generating solar cell or cells.

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BACKGROUND[0001]The present invention relates to a self-pumping liquid and gas cooling system for the cooling of solar cells and heat generating elements. Moreover, the invention is also directed to the provision of a method for the self-pumping of liquid and gas coolants utilizing a cooling system pursuant to the invention.[0002]Solar cells, as well as other kinds of heat generating components or elements, such as semiconductor chips and electronic devices, inherently process a tendency to generate appreciable amounts of heat, the latter of which must of necessity be designated and removed in an efficient and economical manner, in order to avoid damaging or destroying these heat-generating and other ancillary elements.THE PRIOR ART[0003]At this time, pursuant to the current technology, there are available systems for diverse liquid-gas heat exchanger applications adapted to provide for semi-conductor chip cooling, which utilize thermally pumped liquid and gas flows through siphon c...

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Benefits of technology

[0006]In order to ameliorate or even possibly entirely eliminate the drawbacks and limitations that are encountered in the prior art, pursuant to the invention there is provided a system which, in a practical manner utilizes heat from the chip, for instance, an element such as a solar cell, in order to drive a pump in a manner analogous to the operation of a steam-driven pump or turbine. In effect, the pump capable of returning coolant to the evaporator from almost any physical orientation able to produce a partial vacuum, and which will draw coolant in an either up or down mode. Moreover, the pump can assist in producing a forcible circulation or coolant throughout the system, while being readily constituted of inexpensive and commercially available structural components. Additionally, the pump presently utilizes a closed circulating system for cooling solar cells that does not require a supply of any external power, inasmuch as the pump is operated or driven itself by any undesired or unwanted waste heat that is generated by the chip or solar cell or array thereof. Hereby the waste heat which tends to normally adversely effect the performance of the solar cell is employed by the system to improve the performance by cooling the chip or solar cell (or array).

[0011]It is another object of the present invention to provide a method utilizing a self-pumping liquid and gas-cooling system for the cooling of heat generating components, such as solar cells in a highly efficient and inexpensive manner.

Problems solved by technology

Hereby the waste heat which tends to normally adversely effect the performance of the solar cell is employed by the system to improve the performance by cooling the chip or solar cell (or array).

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