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3 unusual facts about heat pipe


Heat pipe

The general principle of heat pipes using gravity, commonly classified as two phase thermosiphons, dates back to the steam age and Angier March Perkins and his son Loftus Perkins and the "Perkins Tube", which saw widespread use in locomotive boilers and working ovens.

Heat pipes are also used to keep the permafrost frozen alongside parts of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway where the embankment and track absorb the sun's heat.

For example, in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System residual ground heat remaining in the oil as well as heat produced by friction and turbulence in the moving oil could conduct down the pipe's support legs and melt the permafrost on which the supports are anchored.


Spire Corp

The company have received credit from the PC media such as Tom's Hardware and HardOCP for their overclockers thermal solutions based on the DT (direct touch) heat pipe technology.

Yctc

Although YCTC offers a variety of Thermal pipe ( Heat pipe ) product lines, YCTC's major focus is heat pipes used in Notebooks (laptops).


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