Osmotically pumped energy transport system
Abstract
An osmotic heat pipe using commercially available membranes has been constructed and its continuous operation demonstrated. Principles of operation and technology status are considered along with polarization concentration effects, flow control, leakage through a membrane, and solute carryover. Evaluation of potential applications indicates that totally passive energy transport systems can be developed for applications such as deicing of leading edges of aircraft wings, helicopter rotor blades, cooling of electronics, and solar heating and cooling of buildings.
- Publication:
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AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980aiaa.meetW....B
- Keywords:
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- Heat Pipes;
- Heat Transfer;
- Osmosis;
- Thermal Energy;
- Transportation Energy;
- Aircraft Engines;
- Heat Storage;
- Membrane Structures;
- Solar Cooling;
- Solar Heating;
- Spacecraft Structures;
- Temperature Control;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer