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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机译：本文介绍了用于建筑空调的集成热管和陶瓷管蒸发冷却原型的实验室测试结果。该冷却器集成了耐用的多孔陶瓷管（作为水饱和介质材料）和热管（作为高效的传热设备）。陶瓷管和热管跨过两个独立的空气导管，分别形成一个湿通道和干通道。在温度，湿度和质量流率的各种进气条件下测量冷却器的热性能。实验测量表明，该冷却系统可提供高达1220 W / m2的湿介质暴露表面积的充分冷却，并将环境温度降低至12℃。同样，据测量，冷却器的湿球效率可以达到86％。
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