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Implementation of Looped Heat Pipe in Room Air Conditioner for Increase in Efficiency

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Rajesh Kumar ,Dr. Shrihar Pandey
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si8.441

Abstract

The heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) business offers solutions to enhance thermal comfort in people's daily lives. Traditional air conditioners and air coolers are frequently used to lower a room's temperature. The purpose of this senior project is to investigate the idea of a heat pipe air conditioner (HPAC). While air conditioners are devices that actively remove heat from a place by superheating their refrigerant, heat pipes are passive heat transfer devices that rely on the phase change of their working fluid to do so. A heat pipe will be able to actively transfer heat thanks to the hybridization of the two components. This senior year study will pique the interest of other scholars to further develop the current model once the idea of HPAC has been proven. In the HVAC business, the HPAC may theoretically be launched as a less expensive and more energy-efficient alternative to air conditioners and air coolers. To validate the notion, two approaches were developed. One approach was creating a mathematical model to analyse the HPAC's thermodynamic cycle. To test the cooling capabilities of the HPAC under real-world circumstances, a prototype was also built. The mathematical model demonstrates that heat transfer will occur when the evaporator and condenser pressures are adjusted to the correct saturation pressure of the working fluid. However, according to the experiment, when isopropyl alcohol is employed as the working fluid, the evaporator experiences a large rise in temperature over time at low evaporator pressure (absolute pressure: 26 kPa to 60 kPa).

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