Heat pipes are the most effective passive method of transferring heat available today. In their simplest form, a heat pipe is a sealed tube containing a phase-change fluid.
Air2O’s heat pipe technology facilitates a transfer of energy between two parts of a wrap-around coil by pre-cooling the processed air upstream of a DX coil and introducing the same value of thermal energy downstream of the DX coil (in addition to hot gas reheat) in order to increase the temperature of the supply air to the design criteria levels. This approach allows for reduction of the compressor size by as much as 30%, resulting in lower acquisition cost and reduced energy consumption.