Increasing levels of urbanisation and indoor air quality have led to enhanced research and development of sustainable technologies in buildings. This study investigated natural ventilation streams typically found in domestic buildings and used heat pipe technology to recover the energy from...

Building legislation along with environmental and comfort concerns are increasingly driving designers of building services and air conditioning equipment towards more energy efficient solutions. Heat pipe technology is emerging as a viable, efficient and environmentally-sound technology for...

A novel heat pipe photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) system that could simultaneously supply electrical and thermal energy was proposed. Compared with a traditional water-type PV/T system, the heat pipe PV/T system can be used in cold regions without becoming frozen. A dynamic model of the heat pipe...

The best way to reduce global warming is, without any doubt, cutting down our anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. But the world economy is addict to energy, which is mainly produced by fossil carbon fuels. As economic growth and increasing world population require more and more energy,...

The growing demand for electricity and the increasing size of the carbon footprint of data centers worldwide bring a severe challenge to sustainable development of human civilization. The cooling energy consumption takes up around 30–50% of the total consumption of data centers due to the...

An experimental platform for testing solar collectors has been designed and built at Southeast University, China. In this article, the structure and the detailed operation of this platform are presented. The performance of an evacuated heat pipe solar collector, in which a heat-pipe is used to...

Heat transfer is a critical factor affecting the performance of metal hydrogen storage tanks. Many studies have proposed inner tubular heat exchangers for increasing the heat transfer rate between the metal powders and the exterior environment of the tanks. However, connecting cooling and...

The waste heat recovery by heat pipes is accepted as an excellent way of saving energy and preventing global warming. This paper is a literature review of the application of heat pipes heat exchangers for the heat recovery that is focused on the energy saving and the enhanced effectiveness of...

New comparative tests on three different types of heat pipe solar collectors are presented in this paper. These three collectors are installed in parallel and tested at the same working conditions.

An optical evaluation and analysis of an internal low-concentrating evacuated tube heat pipe solar collector designed to enhance the collection of solar radiation for medium temperature applications is presented in this paper. The internal low-concentrating evacuated tube heat pipe solar...