Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler

The paper presents laboratory test results of an integrated heat pipe and ceramic tube based evaporative cooling prototype for air conditioning in buildings. The cooler integrates durable porous ceramic tubes as water saturated media materials and heat pipes as efficient heat transfer devices. The c...

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Main Authors: Amer, Omar, Boukhanouf, Rabah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34484/
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description The paper presents laboratory test results of an integrated heat pipe and ceramic tube based evaporative cooling prototype for air conditioning in buildings. The cooler integrates durable porous ceramic tubes as water saturated media materials and heat pipes as efficient heat transfer devices. The ceramic tubes and the heat pipes straddle across two separate air ducts to form a wet and dry channel respectively. The thermal performance of the cooler was measured at various air inlet conditions of temperature, humidity and mass flow rates. The experimental measurements show that the cooling system can provide sufficient cooling as high as 1220 W/m2 of the wet media exposed surface area and depressing ambient temperature to 12℃. Equally, it was measured that the wet bulb effectiveness of the cooler can reach 86%.
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spelling nottingham-344842020-05-04T17:55:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34484/ Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler Amer, Omar Boukhanouf, Rabah The paper presents laboratory test results of an integrated heat pipe and ceramic tube based evaporative cooling prototype for air conditioning in buildings. The cooler integrates durable porous ceramic tubes as water saturated media materials and heat pipes as efficient heat transfer devices. The ceramic tubes and the heat pipes straddle across two separate air ducts to form a wet and dry channel respectively. The thermal performance of the cooler was measured at various air inlet conditions of temperature, humidity and mass flow rates. The experimental measurements show that the cooling system can provide sufficient cooling as high as 1220 W/m2 of the wet media exposed surface area and depressing ambient temperature to 12℃. Equally, it was measured that the wet bulb effectiveness of the cooler can reach 86%. 2016-06-26 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Amer, Omar and Boukhanouf, Rabah (2016) Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler. In: 2nd International Heat Transfer Symposium (IHTS 2016), 26-29 June 2016, Nottingham, UK. indirect evaporative cooling heat pipe porous ceramic tube
spellingShingle indirect evaporative cooling
heat pipe
porous ceramic tube
Amer, Omar
Boukhanouf, Rabah
Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title_full Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title_fullStr Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title_full_unstemmed Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title_short Experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
title_sort experimental investigation of a novel heat pipe and porous ceramic based indirect evaporative cooler
topic indirect evaporative cooling
heat pipe
porous ceramic tube
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34484/