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Design and packaging of a highly integrated microreactor system for high-temperature on-board hydrogen production

John Richard Thome, Paul Muralt, Thomas Maeder, Navid Borhani, Bo Jiang

Highlights • A “plug-and-play” microreaction system for high-temperature reactions (>500 °C). • Efficient thermal decoupling for using standard electrical/fluidic connections. • Automatic and accurate temperature control for calorimetric measurements. • A ...

Elsevier2015

Entrained liquid fraction prediction in adiabatic and evaporating annular two-phase flow

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

A new method to predict the entrained liquid fraction in annular two-phase flow is presented. The underlying experimental database contains 2460 data points collected from 38 different literature studies for 8 different gas-liquid or vapor-liquid combinati ...

2012

Microscale Adiabatic Gas-Liquid Annular Two-Phase Flow: Analytical Model Description, Void Fraction, and Pressure Gradient Predictions

John Richard Thome, Lorenzo Consolini, Andrea Cioncolini, Chin Lee Ong

The study is devoted to the modeling of microscale adiabatic gas-liquid annular two-phase flow. The turbulent diffusion of momentum in the annular liquid film is assumed to be governed by the conditions near the channel wall, in analogy with single-phase t ...

Taylor & Francis2010

Flow boiling heat transfer and two-phase flow phenomena of CO2 in macro-and micro-channel evaporators: Fundamentals, applications and engineering design

John Richard Thome

The paper presents a comprehensive review of fundamentals and engineering applications of CO2 flow boiling heat transfer, flow patterns and two-phase pressure drops in macro- and micro-channel evaporators. First, distinctions of macro- and micro-channels a ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

STEAM: a fast compact thermal model for two-phase cooling of integrated circuits

John Richard Thome, David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Yassir Madhour

Two-phase liquid cooling of computer chips via microchannels etched directly on silicon dies is a potential long-term solution to enable continued integration of high-performance multiprocessors. Two-phase cooling refers to the heat removal via evaporation ...

IEEE/ACM Press2013

CO2 and R410A: Two-phase flow visualizations and flow boiling measurements at medium (0.50) reduced pressure

John Richard Thome

The conversion to more environmentally friendly refrigerants is of prime importance for refrigeration and air-conditioning industries. A first option for the substitution of the fluids which use was banned could be natural refrigerants, such as CO2, or HFC ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2012

Multiscale enhancement of refrigerant falling film boiling by combining commercially enhanced tubes with nanostructures

John Richard Thome

Multiscale surface structures offer the opportunity to combine the heat transfer enhancement provided by microscale structures with the dryout benefits provided by some nanostructures, which is particularly attractive for falling film evaporators, who have ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Two-phase flow of refrigerants in 85μm-wide multi-microchannels: Part II – Heat transfer with 35 local heaters

John Richard Thome, Jonathan Olivier, Etienne Costa-Patry

This article is the second part of a study on flow boiling of R236fa and R245fa. This part presents the heat transfer coefficients obtained in a 12.7 mm silicon evaporator composed of 135 microchannels with 85 mu m wide and 560 mu m high channels separated ...

Elsevier2011

Flow boiling characteristics and flow pattern visualization of refrigerant/lubricant oil mixtures

John Richard Thome

A comprehensive review of flow boiling characteristics and flow pattern visualization of refrigerant/lubricant oil mixtures is presented in this paper. First, various parameters influenced by the lubricant oil in convective boiling of refrigerants, such as ...

Elsevier2009

Experimental evaluation of the thermal performances of a thermosyphon cooling system rejecting heat by natural and forced convection

John Richard Thome, Filippo Cataldo

In the present paper, a closed-loop thermosyphon cooling system for power electronics has been developed and tested. The evaporator is a multi-microchannel heat sink designed for high heat fluxes. The power electronics module is emulated by four independen ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Flow Boiling of R134a in a Multi-Microchannel Heat Sink with Hotspot Heaters for Energy-Efficient Microelectronic CPU Cooling Applications

John Richard Thome, Jonathan Olivier, Yassir Madhour, Etienne Costa-Patry

This paper focuses on two-phase flow boiling of refrigerant R134a inside a copper multi-microchannel heat sink for microelectronic central processing unit cooling applications. The heat sink is composed of 100 parallel microchannels, 100 mu m wide, 680 mu ...

2011

High resolution infrared measurements of single-phase flow of R245fa and R236fa within a compact plate heat exchanger, Part 2: Heat transfer results

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

In the second article of the present two-part paper, upward single-phase heat transfer within a compact plate heat exchanger was investigated experimentally. The experimental setup, the data reduction technique and pressure drop results were presented in P ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

A Level Set Method Coupled With a Volume of Fluid Method for Modeling of Gas-Liquid Interface in Bubbly Flow

John Richard Thome, Bogdan Alexandru Nichita

This paper describes the implementation of a 3D parallel and Cartesian level set (LS) method coupled with a volume of fluid (VOF) method into the commercial CFD code FLUENT for modeling the gas-liquid interface in bubbly flow. Both level set and volume of ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2010

Fine-resolution two-phase flow heat transfer coefficient measurements of refrigerants in multi-microchannel evaporators

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Sylwia Szczukiewicz

The time-averaged two-phase flow heat transfer coefficients were determined with a very fine resolution based on infra-red (IR) temperature measurements conducted over a 1 cm(2) heated area of a multi-micro-, channel evaporator. This experimental investiga ...

Elsevier2013

Efficiency Improvements of a Thermal Power Plant by Making Use of the Waste Heat of Large Datacenters using Two-Phase On-Chip Cooling

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

Cooling of datacenters is estimated to have an annual electricity cost of 1.4 billion dollars in the United States and 3.6 billion dollars worldwide. Currently, refrigerated air is the most widely used means of cooling datacenter’s servers. Modern datacent ...

2011

Critical Heat Flux During Flow Boiling in Microchannels: A Parametric Study

John Richard Thome, Rémi Revellin

The application of flow boiling in microchannels in copper cooling elements for very high heat flux dissipation from microprocessor chips is one of the promising technologies to replace air cooling and water cooling of these units, particularly in mainfram ...

Taylor & Francis2009

Flow boiling and frictional pressure gradients in plate heat exchangers. Part 2: Comparison of literature methods to database and new prediction methods

John Richard Thome, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Farzad Vakili Farahani

In the second part of this study a sensitivity analysis on the prediction methods is performed to consider the effect of plate geometry on thermal hydraulic performance and an extensive comparison of all the two-phase pressure drop and flow boiling heat tr ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

On the prediction of heat transfer in micro-scale flow boiling

John Richard Thome, Lorenzo Consolini

Xu et al. have recently published a set of results for boiling heat transfer measurements in a multi- channel micro- scale evaporator for flow boiling of acetone in triangular cross- section channels ( hydraulic diameter of 155.4 mm). In the present collab ...

2007

Flow boiling in horizontal smooth tubes: New heat transfer results for R-134a at three saturation temperatures

John Richard Thome, Jesus Moreno Quiben, Ricardo Lima

The present study presents new flow boiling heat transfer results of R-134a flowing inside a 13.84 mm internal diameter, smooth horizontal copper tube. The heat transfer measurements were made over a wide range of test conditions: saturation temperatures o ...

2009

A Flexible Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid (flexCLV) method to simulate microscale two-phase flow in non-uniform and unstructured meshes

Andrea Ferrari, John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

An innovative Flexible Coupled Level Set (LS) and Volume of Fluid (VOF) algorithm (flexCLV) to simulate two-phase flows at the microscale on unstructured and non-uniform meshes is proposed. The method combines the advantages of the VOF method in terms of m ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017