Study of Dust Accumulation on Air Cooled Heat Sink with Fan

Abstract

We have studied about dust accumulation on a heat sink with fan used for mobile PC. We found the mixture of wool fragments and cotton linter was suitable as a test dust for present study. Experimental result showed rapid reduction of dust accumulation between fin gap of 1.3 mm to 2.0 mm when increased the fin gap. We have found that the structure that set opening above and parallel to the heat sink reduced the dust accumulation effectively instead of increasing thermal resistance of fan heat sink so much. And, the structure could keep the thermal resistance constant for long time.