{"id":4815,"date":"2012-06-25T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T21:05:57","slug":"licensingtechnology-transfer-the-sandia-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4815","title":{"rendered":"Licensing\/Technology Transfer The Sandia Cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sandia researchers have developed a radically new architecture for air-cooled heat exchangers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/ip.sandia.gov\/technology.do\/techID=66\">Sandia National Laboratories : Licensing\/Technology Transfer The Sandia Cooler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this new device architecture, heat is efficiently transferred from a stationary base plate to a rotating (counterclockwise) structure that combines the functionality of cooling fins with a centrifugal impeller.\u00a0 Dead air enveloping the cooling fins is subjected to a powerful centrifugal pumping effect, providing a 10x reduction in boundary layer thickness at a speed of a few thousand rpm.\u00a0 Additionally, high-speed rotation completely eliminates the problem of heat exchanger fouling.\u00a0 The &#8220;direct drive advantage&#8221;, in which relative motion between the cooling fins and ambient air is created by rotating the heat exchanger, provides a drastic improvement in aerodynamic efficiency.\u00a0 This translates to an extremely quiet operation.\u00a0 The benefits\u00a0have been quantified on a proof-of-concept prototype.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandia researchers have developed a radically new architecture for air-cooled heat exchangers. via Sandia National Laboratories : Licensing\/Technology Transfer The Sandia Cooler. In this new device architecture, heat is efficiently transferred from a stationary base plate to a rotating (counterclockwise) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[694,100,34,693],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-heat-sinks","tag-interesting-research","tag-patents","tag-sandia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/5480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}