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Swanson, D.T. (2004) Thermal Control Technologies for Complex Spacecraft Systems. Proceedings of 13th International Heat Pipe Conference, Shanghai, 21-25 September 2004, China Astronautic Publishing House, Beijing.

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• TITLE: Testing of a Low-Cost Loop Heat Pipe Design

  AUTHORS: Cosimo Buffone

  KEYWORDS: Loop Heat Pipe; Low Cost Evaporator

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Electronics Cooling and Thermal Control, Vol.4 No.1, March 6, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents and describes the test campaign of a low-cost Loop Heat Pipes (LHP) design. LHP have been around for many decades now. Their potential as passive heat transfer devices has been widely demonstrated in numerous both ground- and space-based applications. One of the major disadvantages of LHP is their inherent high manufacturing cost; this is the main factor why LHP are still confined to niche/high end applications such as thermal management of spacecrafts. This paper proposes to use an alternative manufacturing design for the LHP evaporator, which is the main contributor to the overall LHP cost. Preliminary thermal results are also reported and briefly explained. Future work is needed to confirm the promising results discussed in this paper and address fully other issues such as tolerance of this LHP design to vibrations and accelerations typical of space missions.