In this research, the application of heat pipes in the air handler dedicated to decoupling dehumidification from cooling to reduce energy consumption was simulated and investigated by simulations and experimental studies. The cooling load profiles and heat pipes with effectiveness of 0.45 and 0.6, respectively, were evaluated in achieving the desired space conditions and calculated hour by hour...

Research results have identified the use of heat pipe heat exchangers (HPHXs) for heat recovery as a way to reduce the pre-cooling and re-heating energy. This paper suggests decoupling dehumidification from cooling to reduce energy consumption. The feasible usage and the energy saving potential of heat pipe heat exchanger at the air handler dedicated in accomplishing this objective is investiga...

We present a novel micro-heat pipe wick design and fabrication technique to significantly boost the effective thermal conductivity of the heat pipe relative to the monolithic substrate material. Extensive porous flow modeling of the process has provided critical information on the key parameters and the resulting anisotropic wick designs have shown robust performance improvements. A methanol ch...

This paper presents and describes the test campaign of a low-cost Loop Heat Pipes (LHP) design. LHP have been around for many decades now. Their potential as passive heat transfer devices has been widely demonstrated in numerous both groundand space-based applications. One of the major disadvantages of LHP is their inherent high manufacturing cost; this is the main factor why LHP are still conf...

Fluid flow, heat transfer and entropy generation characteristics of micro-pipes are investigated computationally by considering the simultaneous effects of pipe diameter, wall heat flux and Reynolds number in detail. Variable fluid property continuity, Navier-Stokes and energy equations are numerically handled for wide ranges of pipe diameter (d = 0.50–1.00 mm), wall heat flux ( ' ' q = 1000–20...

An in-depth integral analysis revealing various physical aspects of an asymmetrical flat plate heat pipe is presented in this work. The resulting psuedo-three-dimensional vapor phase Row field is bifurcated on the X-J’ plane due to the asymmetrical nature of the heat source and sinks. The analytical results for the shifted vapor velocity profiles on the x-y plane, the overall axial pressure dis...

The use of the latent heat of phase change materials (PCM) is considered a promising approach to store heat at a nearly constant temperature for direct steam generation (DSG), but the poor thermal conductivity of commonly available storage materials imposes severe limitations on storage performance. A new method is proposed to overcome the limitations of the low thermal conductivity. The approa...

A solar cooking system using vacuum-tube collectors with heat pipes containing a refrigerant as working fluid has been fabricated, and its performance has been analysed experimentally. The experiments were conducted during clear days in July and August of 2002 in Elazı g, Turkey under similar meteorological conditions for three refrigerants and water. Detailed temperature distributions and thei...

A severe technical drawback of geothermal heat pumps (GHPs) is the fact that the nominal operating temperature available for domestic space heating is typically in the region of 50°C. This is 25°C to 40°C less than conventional boiler settings used in hydronic central heating applications. As a result, GHPs are not generally ideal for direct replacement of conventional hydronic central heating ...