Abstract
The precise characterisation of boiling in microchannels is essential for the optimisation of applications requiring two phase cooling. In this paper polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is employed to make microchannels for characterising microboiling. In particular the material properties of PDMS facilitate rapid prototyping and its optical transparency provides the capability to directly view any fluid flow. The production of microchannels is complicated by the need to integrate custom made sensors. This paper presents a PDMS microfluidic device with integrated commercial pressure sensors, which have been used to perform a detailed characterisation of microboiling phenomena. The proposed approach of integrating commercial pressure sensors into the channel also has potential applications in a range of other microsystems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings |
| Editors | IEEE |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509010127 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21 Dec 2017 |
| Event | 16th IEEE SENSORS Conference: ICSENS 2017 - Scottish events Campus (SEC), Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 30 Oct 2017 → 1 Nov 2017 https://ieee-sensors2017.org/index.html |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of IEEE Sensors |
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| Volume | 2017-December |
| ISSN (Print) | 1930-0395 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2168-9229 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th IEEE SENSORS Conference |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Glasgow |
| Period | 30/10/17 → 1/11/17 |
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Keywords
- boiling
- cooling
- microfluidics
- sensors