Immersion Cooling Tank Piping With Variable-Area Inlets for Even Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current immersion cooling systems are not satisfactory in terms of cooling efficiency and fluid management, leading to inefficiencies and potential fluid waste.
Innovation Solution
The immersion cooling system incorporates a casing with a piping assembly featuring a fluid entrance, inflow branch pipes, and flow inlets with varying cross-sectional areas, a ring-shaped divider element to segregate fluid zones, and a design that ensures even fluid distribution to electronic devices, enhancing cooling efficiency and reducing waste.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a conventional piping assembly with uniform flow inlet is used, then the structure is simple, but the fluid distribution is uneven leading to poor cooling efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The flow inlet is designed with varying cross-sectional areas along its length, creating different flow resistance zones. The first cross-sectional area (A1) is smaller than the second cross-sectional area (A2), with the ratio A1:A2 being 1:2 to 1:3. This non-uniform structure optimizes fluid distribution locally at different positions, ensuring even cooling across electronic devices while maintaining acceptable structural complexity.
2Productivity
If fluid flow rate is increased to improve cooling, then cooling efficiency improves, but fluid waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flow inlet cross-sectional area parameters are specifically optimized with A1:A2 ratio of 1:2 to 1:3. This parameter optimization creates appropriate flow resistance that prevents excessive fluid flow while ensuring sufficient cooling, thereby improving cooling efficiency without proportionally increasing fluid consumption and waste.
3Productivity
If multiple flow inlets are added to improve fluid distribution, then cooling efficiency improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The piping assembly is segmented into multiple components: fluid entrance, inflow main pipe, inflow branch pipes, and flow inlets. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function optimally while maintaining overall system manageability and reducing complexity compared to a monolithic design.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of adding multiple flow inlets, the patent optimizes the local structure of each flow inlet by varying its cross-sectional area along the length. This local optimization achieves even fluid distribution without increasing the number of components, thereby improving cooling efficiency while controlling device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system improves cooling efficiency by ensuring even fluid distribution and temperature segregation, reducing fluid waste, and optimizing fluid circulation, thereby enhancing the cooling performance of electronic devices.
Implementation Method 1
The flow inlet includes an inconsistent cross-sectional-area portion and a consistent cross-sectional-area portion. The inconsistent cross-sectional-area portion is above the consistent cross-sectional-area portion. The inconsistent cross-sectional-area portion includes a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area, the first cross-sectional area is above the second cross-sectional area, and the first cross-sectional area is less than the second cross-sectional area.
Implementation Method 2
Immersion cooling systems using fluid to cool electronic devices are flourishing.
Implementation Method 3
The fluid entering and exiting the immersion cooling tank is extracted to the heat exchanger by the pump.
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AI summary
An immersion cooling tank is provided. The immersion cooling tank includes a casing and a piping assembly. The piping assembly includes a fluid entrance, an inflow branch pipe, and a flow inlet. The fluid entrance is provided on the casing. The inflow branch pipe is in fluid communication with the fluid entrance. The flow inlet is in fluid communication with the inflow branch pipe. The flow inlet protrudes from the top surface of the inflow branch pipe. Alternatively, the flow inlet is sunken relative to the top surface of the inflow branch pipe. The flow inlet includes a consistent cross-sectional-area portion and an inconsistent cross-sectional-area portion located above the consistent cross-sectional-area portion. The inconsistent cross-sectional-area portion includes a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area, the first cross-sectional area is above the second cross-sectional area, and the first cross-sectional area is less than the second cross-sectional area.