Comparison of Crossflow Micro Heat Exchangers With Different Microstructure Designs

Microstructure heat exchanger are well known for their superior heat transfer capabilities and the good temperature management for applications. Most microstructure heat exchangers presented so far consisted of a number of microchannels in a defined arrangement to provide the transfer of thermal power from one fluid to another, mostly in laminar flow regime. In this publication, several crossflow microstructure heat exchangers are presented. The devices design ranges from simple linear microchannels of different dimensions and shape, complex micro column arrangements up to three dimensional flow structures like crossed sinusoidally shaped microchannels, a kind of split-and-recombine structure. By comparing experimental results of the most interesting devices, microstructure devices with good performance can be chosen.