Abstract: Substantially aligned boron nitride nano-element arrays prepared by contacting a carbon nano-element array with a source of boron and nitrogen; methods for preparing such arrays and methods for their use including use as a heat sink or as a thermally conductivity interface in microelectronic devices.

Abstract: A multi-layer antimicrobial hydrophilic coating is applied to a substrate of anodized aluminum, although other materials may form the substrate. A silver layer is sputtered onto a thoroughly clean anodized surface of the aluminum to about 400 nm thickness. A layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure about 10 nm thickness overlies the silver layer, and the outermost surface of the layer of crosslinked, silicon-based macromolecular structure is hydroxide terminated to produce a hydrophilic surface with a water drop contact angle of less than 10°. The coated substrate may be one of multiple fins in a condensing heat exchanger for use in the microgravity of space, which has narrow channels defined between angled fins such that the surface tension of condensed water moves water by capillary flow to a central location where it is pumped to storage. The antimicrobial coating prevents obstruction of the capillary passages.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metal plate for heat exchange which facilitates nucleate boiling and is extremely excellent in heat conductivity. In the metal plate for heat exchange of the present invention, a recess part 2 having a depth of 5 ?m or more and 10% or less of a plate thickness of the metal plate is formed. A crevasse part 7 is formed at least at a bottom corner 6 of the recess part 2. The crevasse part 7 is formed by cutting away the bottom corner 6 of the recess part 2 in the thickness direction. An angle ? formed by one cut-away surface and the other cut-away surface is 90 degrees or less. In addition, the crevasse part 7 is formed by cutting away a crystal grain 9. The recess part 2 is formed on the surface of the metal plate 1 by pressing a working part 14 formed on a surface of a working roll 12 against the surface of the metal plate 1 being carried.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device including a die with a substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface is provided. The die includes at least one circuit element positioned on the first surface. Formed on the second surface, is a wetting feature that includes an array of spaced-apart nanoscale structures and/or an array of spaced-apart microscale structures. The wetting feature also includes a wettability coating applied to at least a portion of the second surface. The integrated circuit device includes a spacer coupled to the die adjacent to the second surface. In addition, an injector plate is coupled to the spacer. The injector plate includes at least one microjet and at least one exit hole defined through the injector plate. The at least one exit hole is positioned adjacent to the at least one microjet.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger wall that bounds a passage. A coating lines the heat exchanger wall. The coating has a thickness that varies according to location on the heat exchanger wall.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat sink and a backlight module using the heat sink. The heat sink includes a first bottom plate, a first side plate formed on the first bottom plate, and a second bottom plate mounted on the first bottom plate. The first bottom plate and the first side plate are integrally formed together. The second bottom plate is fixed by screws to an end of the first bottom plate that is distant from the first side plate. The first bottom plate is made of aluminum extrusion material. The second bottom plate is made of aluminum sheet material. The bottom plate of the heat sink is formed through jointing so that a portion of the bottom plate is made of aluminum sheet material that has a small thickness to thereby reduce the amount of aluminum material used and thus facilitating cost control.

Abstract: A heat exchanger element includes partition members that include first gas passages that are passages for first gas and second gas passages that are passages for second gas and that are provided above the first gas passages, the partition members operative to partition the first gas passages and the second gas passages; spacing members that form the first gas passages and the second gas passages and that maintain a gap between the partition members; and an adhesive that adheres the partition member and the spacing member with each other. At least one of the partition member and the spacing member is made of a liquid absorbing material, and the adhesive is a water solvent adhesive in which water-soluble flame retardant is impregnated.

Abstract: A heat exchanger system extracts heat from sewer waste water. Preferably, a first surface is narrow band in an interior surface of a pipe, and the band is preferably oriented transverse to a direction of fluid flow. In the case of a horizontal pipe, the band may be a partial band, and may be limited substantially to a wetted portion of the pipe in order to reduce the size of the band.

Abstract: A graphite sheet preventing leakage of a heat radiating member when a fluid heat radiating member such as grease is used and improving heat radiation performance is provided. A graphite sheet includes a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface and has a large anisotropic thermal conductivity in a main surface direction. The graphite sheet includes a first concave portion provided on the first main surface and having a first bottom surface, a second concave portion provided on the second main surface and having a second bottom surface, a thin film portion formed in a region in which the first bottom surface and the second bottom surface are overlapped with each other, and a connecting hole penetrating the thin film portion and allowing the first concave portion and the second concave portion to communicate with each other.

Abstract: A heat dissipation system, comprising: (a) an electronic device comprising a heat source, wherein the heat source transmits heat to a second component or an external surface of the device; (b) a heat-conducting layer being positioned such that one of its major surfaces is in operative contact with the heat source such that it is interposed between the heat source and the second component or the external surface. The heat-conducting layer comprises at least one graphene oxide-coated graphitic foil laminate which thermally shields the second component or the external surface from heat generated by the heat source, and wherein the laminate is composed of a graphitic substrate/core layer with at least one primary surface coated with a graphene oxide coating layer. This graphene oxide-coated laminate exhibits a combination of exceptional thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, surface hardness, and scratch resistance, making this the most effective heat dissipation system.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a component is provided. The component includes a substrate having an outer surface and an inner surface, where the inner surface defines at least one interior space. The fabrication method includes forming at least one groove in the outer substrate surface. Each groove extends at least partially along the outer substrate surface and has an asymmetric cross-section. The method further includes forming at least one access hole in the substrate. Each access hole connects the respective groove in fluid communication with the respective interior space. A coating is disposed over at least a portion of the substrate surface, such that the groove(s) and the coating together define one or more channels for cooling the component. A component is also disclose and has at least one groove with an asymmetric cross-section.

Abstract: A thermal pad includes: a thermally conductive sheet-like substrate, where the sheet-like substrate has a compressible porous mesh structure in a thickness direction; and a thermally conductive coating, where the coating is formed of a flexible organic compound, and the organic compound fills inside the sheet-like substrate or is coated on a surface of the sheet-like substrate, or the organic compound both fills inside the sheet-like substrate and is coated on the surface of the sheet-like substrate. In the thermal pad, the method for fabricating a thermal pad, the heat dissipating apparatus, and the electronic device provided in the embodiments of the present application, a thermally conductive flexible organic compound fills inside or is coated on a thermally conductive sheet-like substrate having a compressible porous mesh structure in the thickness direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner for attempting to improve on the corrosion of the outdoor unit. The air conditioner of the present invention for performing a cooling operation and a heating operation by switching a four side valve, that includes an outdoor side heat exchanger operating as a condenser during the cooling operation and an evaporator during the heating operation, and having fins and heat transfer tubes, wherein the outdoor side heat exchanger is placed on a baseboard which configures a lower portion of a chassis of the outdoor unit, comprises the fins and the heat transfer tubes of the outdoor side heat exchanger that are constructed with aluminum or aluminum alloy, and the baseboard that is constructed with Zn—Al plated steel board or Zn—Al—Mg plated steel board.

Abstract: A molecular fan for dissipating heat, the fan having a chemically functionalized molecular fan thin film coating affixed to a surface in need of heat dissipation. A nanocoating for dissipating heat, the coating having a thin film coating affixed to a surface in need of heat dissipation. A molecular fan thin film coating affixed to a surface in need of heat dissipation for dissipating heat.

Abstract: An antimicrobial coating slurry includes about 15.5 wt % of a wetting agent, about 6.0 wt % of an insolubilizer, about 1.1 wt % of a biocide agent, and about 7.8 wt % of an inorganic material that includes lithium oxide and the balance water. The slurry is applied to a heat exchanger surface, cured, and washed to form a hydrophilic coating that includes lithium silicate. The hydrophilic coating provides improved moisture wicking and a reduced dissolution rate of biocide, which is held within a lithium silicate matrix.

Abstract: Improvements in tubes, which increase the heat exchange capacity of tubular heat exchangers using the tubes, are described. These improvements involve the use of one or more external surface enhancements, optionally combined with an internal enhancement and/or differing tube geometries. These improvements apply, for example, to internal condensers, including those in which the tube bundles are oriented vertically, in vapor-liquid contacting apparatuses such as distillation columns.

Abstract: A fin for a heat exchanger of an air conditioning apparatus includes a base material, a hydrophilic layer, and a corrosion-resistant layer provided between the base material and the hydrophilic layer. A contact angle of a surface of the hydrophilic layer with water is no more than 50 degrees. A water content of the hydrophilic layer per dm2 of the surface of the hydrophilic layer being at least 60 mg/dm2 and no more than 300 mg/dm2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a temperature-control element. The present invention relates to a temperature-control element, having at least one surface region with an electrically insulating and thermally conductive coating, in particular a ceramic coating provided on said surface region, and attached to the coating is at least one electronic component which is thermally connected to the temperature-control element and is configured to be electrically insulating with respect to the temperature-control element. The present invention also relates to a method for attaching an electronic component to the temperature-control element.

Abstract: A heat exchanger in which inner wall surfaces of refrigerant passages through which a first refrigerant and a second refrigerant flow are constituted by a different metal and in which a heat exchange performance is improved. Second-refrigerant heat-transfer tubes that are formed with a metal different from a heat transfer block are each inserted through a corresponding second-refrigerant heat-transfer-tube insertion hole. The second-refrigerant heat-transfer tubes are formed with a metal with a different material from that of the heat transfer block.

Abstract: A method and system for stabilizing flow includes introducing a flow into a channel with a minimum cross-sectional dimension of less than three millimeters and triggering a release of one or more bubbles in the flow at one or more locations in the channel. The one or more locations are spaced in from an inlet and an outlet to the channel.

Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger including a heat exchange fin in which frost formation at the time of heater operation can be prevented to the extent possible, and under such a condition that condensation is liable to occur on a fin surface, a water droplet of condensed water can be quickly removed by bringing the water droplet into contact with a hydrophilic film, and as a result, a favorable heat exchange function can be continuously obtained without any increase in ventilation resistance.

Abstract: An aspect of a ferritic stainless steel contains, by mass %: C: 0.03% or less; N: 0.03% or less; Si: more than 0.1% to 1% or less; Mn: 0.02% to 1.2%; Cr: 15% to 23%; Al: 0.002% to 0.5%; and either one or both of Nb and Ti, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein Expression (1) and Expression (2) illustrated below are satisfied, an oxide film is formed on a surface thereof, and the oxide film contains Cr, Si, Nb, Ti and Al in a total cationic fraction of 30% or more, 8(C+N)+0.03?Nb+Ti?0.6??(1) Si+Cr+Al+{Nb+Ti?8(C+N)}?15.5??(2).

Abstract: An aluminum alloy material having an excellent sea water corrosion resistance comprises an aluminum alloy substrate whose ten-points average surface roughness Rz, which is the average of five greatest peak-to-valley separations on the surface, is controlled at 0.3 ?m or over, an organic phosphonic primer film formed on a surface of the aluminum alloy substrate, and a fluorine resin paint film formed on the primer film and having a dry average thickness of 1 to 100 ?m. A plate heat exchanger having an excellent sea water corrosion resistance is also provided wherein the aluminum alloy material is used as a heat transfer unit using sea water as cooling water.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tube comprising an Al alloy extruded tube, and a flux layer including Si powder, Zn-containing flux, and binder formed on an outer surface of the Al alloy extruded tube, wherein an amount of the Si powder applied on the Al alloy extruded tube is in a range of 1 g/m2 or more and 5 g/m2 or less, an amount of the Zn containing flux applied on the Al alloy extruded tube is in a range of 3 g/m2 or more and 20 g/m2 or less, and the Si powder has a particle diameter distribution such that 99% particle diameter is 5 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less, and an amount of coarse particle having a diameter of not smaller than 5 times (D99) is less than 1 ppm by volume.

Abstract: A process for treating a water stream produced in the recovery of heavy oil from geological formations. The process includes use of a heat exchange unit having at least one tube having a multi-layer coating. The multi-layer coating includes a melt flowable copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene adhered to the interior surface or exterior surface of the tube.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a heat-generating component includes a stationary base structure and a rotating structure. The stationary base structure is mountable at the first heat-conducting surface to or near the heat-generating component. The stationary base structure has a first and second heat-conducting surface to conduct heat therebetween. The rotating structure is rotatably coupled to the stationary base structure. The rotating structure has a heat-extraction surface facing the second heat-conducting surface across a spatial gap. As a result of the rotating structure rotatably moving, the rotating structure substantially transfers the heat from the second heat-conducting surface to a thermal reservoir communicating with the rotating structure. In addition, as a result of the rotating structure rotatably moving, at least two surfaces of the rotating structure and/or the stationary base structure generate a thrust and an opposing thrust to vary and/or maintain the spatial gap.

Abstract: A component includes a substrate that has outer and inner surfaces. The inner surface defines at least one hollow, interior space. The outer surface defines pressure and suction sidewalls that are joined together at leading and trailing edges of the component and together form an airfoil portion of the component. The outer substrate surface further defines at least one platform and at least one fillet that extends between and integrally connects the airfoil to the respective platform. The outer surface defines one or more grooves that extend at least partially along a respective fillet. Each groove is in fluid communication with a respective hollow, interior space. The component further includes a coating disposed over at least a portion of the outer substrate surface and including at least a structural coating that extends over the groove(s). The groove(s) and the structural coating together define channel(s) for cooling the respective fillet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an adsorption heat exchanger, which is characterized by the following Steps: producing a heat exchanger structure; forming an adhesive layer (5) on the heat exchanger structure; filling the heat exchanger structure with a sorbent material (6.1); removing from the heat exchanger structure portions of the sorbent material that have bonded only weakly or not at all to the adhesive structure.

Abstract: A variety of methods of forming polymer manifolds and the resulting manifold structures are described. The described manifolds are well suited for use in heat exchangers and a variety of other applications. In one aspect a polymer manifold includes a multiplicity of tubes having first ends that are received by a manifold housing. A polymer film is secured to the manifold housing and to the ends of each of the tubes. The film is arranged to seal the housing while leaving the openings of the tubes exposed to thereby create a manifold. In some embodiments, a potting material is used to reinforce the film. In a method aspect, a manifold may be formed by positioning first ends of the tubes in a manifold housing and welding a polymer film to the manifold housing and to distal tips of the tubes. Openings for the tubes are then formed in the film by directing heat towards the film which melts or vaporizes the film in the regions of the tube openings.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a multiple effect evaporative condenser, at least one compressor, at least one heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and at least one multiple-effect evaporative condensers. The multiple effect evaporative condenser and the heat exchanger utilize a highly efficient heat exchanging pipe for performing heat exchange between water and refrigerant.

Abstract: A metallic heat exchanger tube (1) with a tube wall (2) and with integrally formed ribs (3) which run around on the tube outside (21) and which have a rib foot (31), rib flanks (32) and a rib tip (33), the rib foot (31) projecting essentially radially from the tube wall (2), and the rib flanks (32) being provided with additional structural elements which are formed as material projections (4) arranged laterally on the rib flank (32), the material projections (4) having a plurality of boundary faces (41, 42), at least one of the boundary faces (42) of at least one material projection (4) being curved convexly.

Abstract: A heat exchanger, which maintains basic performance even in an environment repeatedly subjected to dew condensation, is provided. The heat exchanger is formed of a plurality of unit devices each including a heat exchanger plate, spacer ribs, and shielding ribs. The heat exchanger plate, the spacer rib and the shielding rib are integrally molded with resin. The spacer ribs keep the spacing between the heat exchangers, and the shielding ribs shield leakage of airflow. The unit devices are stacked each other to form airflow passages between the heat exchanger plates. The airflow passages allow a first airflow and a second airflow to pass therethrough and to exchange heat through the heat exchanger plates. The heat exchanger plate is made of a moisture permeable resin film having water-insolubility and flame retardant property, and the resin has water-insolubility and flame retardant property.

Abstract: A method of coating an internal surface of an assembled heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger comprising a first passage for a first heat exchange fluid, and a second passage for a second heat exchange fluid. The first and second passages are separated by at least one heat transfer element. The heat transfer element has a first surface facing the first passage. The method comprises; pre-treating the first surface by circulating at least one pre-treatment liquid through the first passage of the heat exchanger and a pre-treatment liquid storage separate from the heat exchanger, and electroless nickel plating the first surface by circulating a solution comprising nickel ions through the first passage of the heat exchanger and a solution container separate from the heat exchanger. A heat exchanger comprising a nickel plating is also disclosed.

Abstract: A molding method of a heat dissipating cover for spherical light source includes cutting process, impact molding process, chamfering process, and coating process. A thermal conducting sheet is transformed into a semi-finished product by the impact molding process, and then the semi-finished product is curved and smoothed by the chamfering process in order to form a desired flowerpot or cup shape. In this way, the manufacturer can save time and money to produce an effective heat sink.

Abstract: Tube-bundle equipment for heat exchange operations at high pressures and temperatures, under conditions of high aggressiveness of the process fluids, comprising a titanium lining (11) and a series of tubes (1) consisting of at least one layer of zirconium (2), positioned in contact with said fluids, wherein the tube plate on which said tubes are inserted comprises an outer layer (S) of zirconium or an alloy thereof and an underlying layer (5) of titanium welded to the lining of the equipment. Said equipment is particularly used as a heat exchanger, for example as a stripper, in the high-pressure cycle of urea syntheses processes.

Abstract: Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials. The oxide materials described herein as a class typically contain one or more of ytterbia (Yb2O3) and europia (Eu2O3). The oxides may further contain other additives, such as oxides of gadolinium (Gd), samarium (Sm), dysprosium (Dy), or terbium (Tb). In certain embodiments the oxide, in addition to the ytterbia and/or europia, further comprises lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), or neodymium (Nd).

Abstract: A plate fin heat exchanger comprises a folded fin sheet comprising fins wherein the fin sheet comprises a plurality of perforations, such plurality of perforations are positioned on the fin sheet in parallel rows when such fin sheet is in an unfolded state, such parallel rows of perforations on the fin sheet comprise a first spacing between the parallel rows of perforations (S1), a second spacing between sequential perforations within the parallel row of perforations (S2), a third spacing (or offset) between the perforations in adjacent parallel rows of perforations (S3), and a perforation diameter (D), wherein the ratio of the first spacing between the parallel rows of perforations to the perforation diameter (S1/D) is in the range of 0.75 to 2.0, and wherein the angle between the fins and the parallel rows of perforations is less than or equal to five degrees (?5°).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a heat dissipating substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The heat dissipating substrate includes: a substrate that is formed of a metal material, wherein at least one via hole is formed in the substrate; an insulating layer formed on a surface of the substrate; a coating layer that is formed on an inner wall surface of the via hole and is formed of a conductive or non-conductive material; a plurality of metal patterns that are formed on the insulating layer and are electrically separated from one another; a metal layer that is extended from the metal patterns to be formed on the coating layer formed on the inner wall surface of the via hole; and a filling material that is formed of a non-conductive material and is filled between the metal layers in the via hole.

Abstract: A method and device for reducing sulfidation corrosion and depositional fouling in heat transfer components within a refining or petrochemical facility is disclosed. The heat transfer components are formed from a corrosion and fouling resistant steel composition containing a Cr-enriched layer having a surface roughness of less than 40 micro inches (1.1 ?m) and a protective layer formed thereon.

Abstract: Materials, components, and methods are provided that are directed to the fabrication and use of micro-scale channels with a fluid for a heat exchange system, where the temperature and flow of the fluid is controlled, in part, through the macroscopic geometry of the micro-scale channel and the configuration of at least a portion of the wall of the micro-scale channel and the constituent particles that make up the fluid. Moreover, the wall of the micro-scale channel and the constituent particles are configured such that collisions between the constituent particles and the wall are substantially specular. Accelerating and decelerating elements provided herein can be configured with micro-scale channels which can trace out a generally spiral path.

Abstract: A method of providing sulfidation corrosion resistance and corrosion induced fouling resistance for a heat transfer component is disclosed. The heat transfer component includes a heat exchange surface formed from a chromium-enriched oxide containing material formed from the composition ?, ?, and ?, wherein ? is a steel containing at least about 5 to about 40 wt. % chromium, ? is a chromium enriched oxide (M3O4 or M2O3 or mixtures thereof) formed on the surface of the steel ?, wherein M is a metal containing at least 5 wt. % Cr based on the total weight of the metal M, and ? is a top layer formed on the surface of the chromium-enriched oxide ?, comprising sulfide, oxide, oxysulfide, and mixtures thereof. The top layer ? comprises iron sulfide (Fe1-xS), iron oxide (Fe3O4), iron oxysulfide, iron-chromium sulfide, iron-chromium oxide, iron-chromium oxysulfide, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode that stabilizes properties and a film-forming rate of a coating made by surface treatment that uses the electrode showing a narrow distribution in physical properties such as a composition and resistance. A method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode according to the present invention is identified as a method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode formed of a green compact made of a metal powder subjected to compression molding, characterized in that the method includes the step of forming a nitride coating by nitriding a surface of the metal powder, and the step of forming a green compact by subjecting the metal powder having its surface nitrided to compression molding.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a component is provided. The method includes forming one or more grooves in a surface of a substrate, where the substrate has at least one hollow interior space. Each of the one or more grooves extends at least partially along the substrate surface and has a base and a top. The base is wider than the top, such that each of the one or more grooves comprises a re-entrant shaped groove. The method further includes forming one or more access holes through the base of a respective groove, to connect the groove in fluid communication with respective ones of the hollow interior space(s), and disposing a coating over at least a portion of the substrate surface. The one or more grooves and coating define one or more re-entrant shaped channels for cooling the component. A component with one or more re-entrant shaped channels and a method of coating a component are also provided.

Abstract: Articles coated with wetting resistant materials are presented. One embodiment is an article comprising a substrate and a coating having low surface connected porosity disposed on the substrate. The coating comprises an oxide, which comprises aluminum, yttrium, and at least one rare earth element according to the following atomic proportions: (RxY1-x)3Al5O12 where x is in the range from about 0.001 to about 0.999, and where R is at least one of the rare earth elements, Y is yttrium, O is oxygen, and Al is aluminum.

Abstract: A coating composition according to the present invention includes silica microparticles and fluorine resin particles. The coating film formed on a surface of an article includes a silica film composed of the silica microparticles, in which the fluorine resin particles are dotted so as to partially expose from a surface of the silica film, an exposed area of the silica film is larger than an exposed area of the fluorine resin particles, and amount of natrium contained in the coating composition is made equal to or less than 0.5% in a ratio by weight to contained amount of the silica microparticles.

Abstract: A plate heat exchanger comprises several heat exchanger plates provided beside each other, which form first and second alternating plate interspaces. Every second heat exchanger plate forms a primary plate and every second secondary plate. Each heat exchanger plate extends in an extension plane and comprises a heat transfer area and an edge area around the heat transfer area. The heat transfer area comprises a corrugation of longitudinally extending ridges and valleys. The ridges have two edge surfaces and a support surface between the edge surfaces, with a first width transversally to the longitudinal direction. The valleys have two edge surfaces and a support surface between the edge surfaces, with a second width transversally to the longitudinal direction. The support surface of valleys of the primary plates slopes relative to the extension plane and the support surface of ridges of the secondary plates slopes relative to the extension plane.

Abstract: A heat exchanging element for a heat exchanger is provided with a coating that prevents, or at least reduces, the amount of contaminating materials to be abrade from the heat exchanger and into the heat exchange media. A method for producing a heat exchanging element for a heat exchanger, a heat exchanger per se, and a method for retrofitting an existing heat exchanger, provide for the occurrence of impurities caused by abrasion in one or more heat exchanging media and/or corrosion to be prevented or at least reduced by providing the coating.

Abstract: A super-hydrorepellent coating composition including a nano structure, polyorganosiloxane, a cross-linker, and a catalyst; a super-hydrorepellent coating layer including a cured product of the super-hydrorepellent coating composition; and a heat exchanger including the super-hydrorepellent coating layer.

Abstract: To continue operating a compression refrigerant system even while the system's brazed plate heat exchanger contains, in localized areas, water at or below its atmospheric subfreezing water temperature, a penetrating temperature probe senses the water temperature at a strategic intermediate point between the heat exchanger's water inlet and outlet. The brazed plate heat exchanger comprises a series of corrugated plates stacked and brazed together to create an alternating arrangement of water and refrigerant passages in heat transfer relationship with each other. In some examples, the idea is to take advantage of the principle that water has a lower freezing temperature at relatively high pressure and that the relatively small micro-channel passages of intermediate water passages within the brazed plate heat exchanger can withstand appreciably higher pressure than other areas within the heat exchanger, such as the areas at the heat exchanger's water inlet and water outlet.

Abstract: Disclosed are a heat radiation dissipation film structure and a method of making the same. The heat radiation dissipation film structure includes a substrate which is electrically insulated and a heat radiation dissipation film disposed on the substrate. The difference between the thermal expansion coefficients of the substrate and the heat radiation dissipation film is not greater than 0.1%. The heat radiation dissipation film contains the crystal of at least one metal and nonmetal with a specific microscopic surface structure which is formed by spraying and coating the heated mixture onto the substrate under high pressure. The heat radiation from the heat radiation dissipation film is directed from the interface of the heat radiation dissipation film and the substrate towards the substrate.