PREFACE

The 7th International Heat Pipe Conference was held on May 21-25, 1990 in Minsk, at the A.V.Luikov Heat & Mass Transfer Institute Byelorussian Academy of Scciences. Such conferences have been organized and held since 1973 by the-International Committee on Heat Pipes chaired by Dr. George Grover, the inventor of heat pipes. Since 1990 the chairman of this International Committee is Prof. Dr. Manfred Groll.