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Miljkovic, Nenad Popovic, George 2021-09-17T01:10:28Z 2021-09-17T01:10:28Z 2021-01-13 2021-05 The number of electric and alternative fuel source vehicles has dramatically expanded in the last decade due to the proliferation of high energy-dense batteries and the lowering costs of hydrogen fuel vehicles. However, current generation heat exchangers take up more space in alternative fuel source vehicles than in traditional combustion vehicles due to the lower allowable temperatures of the battery or fuel source than the temperatures in a combustion engine. Large heat exchangers create a packaging problem for engineers, driving up the costs and reduce range due to the induced drag. Here we examine utilizing water to spray onto the heat exchangers to increase performance, allowing a decrease in surface area required for heat exchangers in alternative fuel source vehicles. The scalable and optimized super hydrophilic heat exchangers developed here at UIUC have the ability to increase the spray cooling system efficiency and decrease material usage and manufacturing costs. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2021-09-16 without embargo terms The student, George Popovic, accepted the attached license on 2021-01-11 at 11:03. The student, George Popovic, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-01-11 at 11:06. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-01-13 at 09:18. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16145 on 2021-09-16 at 16:39:12 Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T01:10:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 POPOVIC-THESIS-2021.pdf: 7610085 bytes, checksum: 8e920cb022c55d966b1c0e092150bc2d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 8f68c0d8f061bee38af4e88e99552485 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-01-13 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110406 en Copyright 2021 George Popovic spray-cooling heat exchangers superhydrophilic scalable coatings. Spray cooling applications for alternative energy vehicles text Thesis Mechanical Sci & Engineering Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.