Heat Pipe Technology for Refrigeration and Cooling

Abstract

A main goal of this review was an exchange of the essential ideas and practical problems of heat pipe technology use for refrigeration and cooling, with respect to the following most perspective spotlights: 1. Heat pipes and especially loop heat pipes application as a safe external or internal thermal link. 2. Heat pipe technology as a base for refrigerating heat pipes research and development. 3. Cooling of electronics with collector type thermosyphons. 4. Heat transfer panels with thermosyphon loop application for improvement of thermal regimes of domestic refrigerators and heat and cold chambers. 5. Special field of heat pipe technology application for ice and snow melting. Long thermosyphons use for soil freezing in the regions with the cold climate as the building base. 6. Heat pipe technology for the performance improvement of the air conditioning systems, including: The dehumidifier heat pipes in vapor-compression air conditioning systems. The heat pipe heat exchangers for humidity control in air conditioning systems. Indirect evaporative cooling, using thermosyphon or heat pipe heat exchangers. Heat pipe technology for advanced desiccant-enhanced cooling and dehumidification systems.