A characteristic study on the start-up performance of molten-salt heat pipes: Experimental investigation

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• 作者：Yaxuan Xiong^a ; Li Bo^a ; Meng Qiang^b ; Yuting Wu^b ; ^{Wuyuting@bjut.edu.cn} ; Xingxing Zhang^c ; ^d ; ^{Xingxing.Zhang@nottingham.edu.cn} ; Peng Xu^a ; Chongfang Ma^b
• 关键词：Molten salt ; Heat pipe ; Inclination angle ; Charge mass ; Start-up performance
• 刊名：Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：82
• 期：Complete
• 页码：433-438
• 全文大小：1435 K
• 卷排序：82

文摘

A quaternary mixture of molten salt is proposed as heat-pipe working fluid. Start-up thermal performance of the heat pipes is characterized. The molten-salt heat pipe is compared against conventional naphthalene heat pipe.