Liquid-metal cooling of synchrotron optics

Robert K. Smither

doi:10.1117/12.140546

25 February 1993 Liquid-metal cooling of synchrotron optics

Robert K. Smither

Proceedings Volume 1739, High Heat Flux Engineering; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140546
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The installation of insertion devices at existing synchrotron facilities around the world has stimulated the development of new ways to cool the optical elements in the associated x-ray beamlines. Argonne has been a leader in the development of liquid metal cooling for high heat load x-ray optics for the next generation of synchrotron facilities. The high thermal conductivity, high volume specific heat, low kinematic viscosity, and large working temperature range make liquid metals a very efficient heat transfer fluid. A wide range of liquid metals were considered in the initial phase of this work. The most promising liquid metal cooling fluid identified to date is liquid gallium, which appears to have all the desired properties and the fewest number of undesired features of the liquid metals examined.

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Robert K. Smither "Liquid-metal cooling of synchrotron optics", Proc. SPIE 1739, High Heat Flux Engineering, (25 February 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140546

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