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.