Nerd Help Needed: Liquid Metal Cooling

[J0hnny]

No more water cooling neded

New liquid metal cooling technology.

I'm trying to understand the electromagnetic pump. From my understanding, it probably uses some sort of magnetohydrodynamic interaction. Can anyone explain it to me?

Edit

Hmm, kinda sorta answered my own question:

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How come I can't duplicate this result on my own though? I have tried using ferrous filled fluid and have all the required electromagnets but still couldn't do it.

Edit 2

I doubt setting up electromagnets in series to pulse at the correct time with check valves would make the fluid pump on a setup of my own. The design linked only shows a single pump.

 

[xospec1alk]

i might have to say wrong forum....

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: J0hnny
No more water cooling neded

New liquid metal cooling technology.

I'm trying to understand the electromagnetic pump. From my understanding, it probably uses some sort of magnetohydrodynamic interaction. Can anyone explain it to me?

An ordinary electric pump would also be called an electromagnetic pump, since there is an electric motor in it.

 

[J0hnny]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: J0hnny
No more water cooling neded

New liquid metal cooling technology.

I'm trying to understand the electromagnetic pump. From my understanding, it probably uses some sort of magnetohydrodynamic interaction. Can anyone explain it to me?

An ordinary electric pump would also be called an electromagnetic pump, since there is an electric motor in it.

Ok, non-mechanical means of movement (no moving parts).

 

[Howard]

I would like to know what kind of alloy they use.

 

[J0hnny]

Hmm, kinda sorta answered my own question:

Link

How come I can't duplicate this result on my own though? I have tried using ferrous filled fluid and have all the required electromagnets but still couldn't do it.

 

[mordantmonkey]

edit: wait, what? what is this stuff made from. i am

 

[Goosemaster]

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[Howard]

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
hmmm link doesn't work for me.
does it use some kind of mercury based metal?
if so i'll stick to water thanks. heated mercury=mercury vapor=bad news
a leak in water may fuxor my rig but it won't fuxor my lungs.

nm metal filings suspended in liquid. not liquid metal per se.

Old news, then. Argonne scientists have been able to suspend copper nanoparticles in solution for a while now.

http://www.techtransfer.anl.gov/techtour/nanofluids.html

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: J0hnny

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: J0hnny
No more water cooling neded

New liquid metal cooling technology.

I'm trying to understand the electromagnetic pump. From my understanding, it probably uses some sort of magnetohydrodynamic interaction. Can anyone explain it to me?

An ordinary electric pump would also be called an electromagnetic pump, since there is an electric motor in it.

Ok, non-mechanical means of movement (no moving parts).

It probably works the same way as any other electromagnet. Send electricity through a conductor and it will generate a magnetic field. With a couple of permanent magnets, you can attract or repel the electrified liquid metal towards/away from those magnets. You probably just need a check valve so it can pulse.