PTFE Modification to Enhance Boiling Performance of Porous Surface

Abstract

Boiling heat transfer is one of the most effective methods to meet the challenge of heat dissipation of high heat flux devices. A wetting hybrid surface has been shown to have better performance than the hydrophilic or hydrophobic surface. This kind of wetting hybrid modification is always carried out on a plain or flat surface. In this paper, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) powders were coated on a superhydrophilic microcopper dendrite fin surface to build a wetting hybrid surface. The pool-boiling experimental results showed that after applying the coating, the wall superheat dramatically decreased to 8 K, which is 9 K lower than that on the original surface at 250 W·cm−2, and has a better performance than a silicon pin-fin-based wetting hybrid surface.