Acer uses this in some of their laptops, namely the Switch Alpha 12 and the Switch 7 Black Edition:
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/acerdesign-liquidloop
It's a fanless passive system that:
1. Acer LiquidLoop™ transfers heat from the CPU to the heat pipe via a thermal conductor.
2. The heat pipe then generates a single direction, two phase flow of liquid.
3. Heat is dissipated through a continual process of evaporation and condensation of the liquid.
From a science perspective, I feel this to be pretty dubious. Yes, thermal energy is definitely carried away from the source very efficiently through evaporation (like sweat on our bodies), but the heat energy still needs to go *somewhere*. In the case of the human body, evaporation transports the heat energy into the surrounding air. Evaporation of heat energy within Acer's LiquidLoop at best will simply go into the metal chassis of the case and slowly radiate outwards.
Basically the LiquidLoop, at least to me, is just a more efficient way of making the chassis into a passive heatsink. It's not actively transporting the heat energy out and away from the unit itself. If you surrounded the Acer tablet in a plastic/rubber protective case, for example, you would roast it.
Thoughts?
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/acerdesign-liquidloop
It's a fanless passive system that:
1. Acer LiquidLoop™ transfers heat from the CPU to the heat pipe via a thermal conductor.
2. The heat pipe then generates a single direction, two phase flow of liquid.
3. Heat is dissipated through a continual process of evaporation and condensation of the liquid.
From a science perspective, I feel this to be pretty dubious. Yes, thermal energy is definitely carried away from the source very efficiently through evaporation (like sweat on our bodies), but the heat energy still needs to go *somewhere*. In the case of the human body, evaporation transports the heat energy into the surrounding air. Evaporation of heat energy within Acer's LiquidLoop at best will simply go into the metal chassis of the case and slowly radiate outwards.
Basically the LiquidLoop, at least to me, is just a more efficient way of making the chassis into a passive heatsink. It's not actively transporting the heat energy out and away from the unit itself. If you surrounded the Acer tablet in a plastic/rubber protective case, for example, you would roast it.
Thoughts?
