Seminarium naukowe: Electrical Motor Cooling with Heat Pipe and Pulsating Heat Pipe
29-06-2026Dziekan Wydziału Elektrycznego zaprasza społeczność akademicką Politechniki Białostockiej na seminarium naukowe: Electrical Motor Cooling with Heat Pipe and Pulsating Heat Pipe.
Prelegent: prof. Edison Gundabattini (Vellore Institute of Technology, Indie)
Miejsce: sala WE-007, Wydział Elektryczny
Termin: 1 lipca 2026r. (środa), godz. 10.15
Prof. Edison Gundabattini pracuje w Department of Thermal and Energy Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) w Vellore (Indie). Opublikował ponad 80 artykułów naukowych z zakresu termodynamiki, turbomaszyn, mechaniki płynów, energii wiatrowej, odnawialnych źródeł energii oraz grafiki inżynierskiej. Jego zainteresowania badawcze obejmują m.in. chłodnictwo, nanochłodnictwo, sprężarki hermetyczne oraz mapowanie termiczne układów mechanicznych i elektrycznych.
Electrical Motor Cooling with Heat Pipe and Pulsating Heat Pipe
Electric motor performance is strongly limited by heat generated from copper losses, iron losses, mechanical losses, stray load losses, and inverter switching losses. Effective thermal management is therefore essential to maintain efficiency, reliability, and service life. Conventional cooling methods include air cooling, liquid jacket cooling, direct oil cooling, spray cooling, and hybrid systems. Advanced passive techniques such as heat pipes and pulsating heat pipes offer high thermal conductivity through phase-change-driven heat transport and oscillatory two-phase flow, respectively. These systems enable efficient hotspot mitigation and compact thermal design in electric machines. A novel enhancement involves the use of nanofluids, where nanoparticles such as Al2O3/CuO/CNT are dispersed in working fluids to improve thermal conductivity and phase-change performance. Despite challenges like stability and clogging, nanofluid-based heat pipe systems present a promising direction for high power-density electric motor cooling.