Since conventional air-conditioning consumes more energy and the temperature in a room is non-uniform
a new ceiling cooling panel of capillary porosity wick(CCPCPW)
which is configured by porous media of potassium citrate-gypsum
is used when water is the cooling medium.The CCPCPW with porosity of 55.3% was studied experimentally.The structure and different configurations of CCPCPW were presented and the cooling performance was tested when maintaining the indoor temperature distribution at (26±1)℃
and the relationship of flow rate and resistance was analyzed.The results show that the cooling capacity of the CCPCPW is increased by 36.6%—57.7% when the inlet temperature of cooling water is 10—16℃.The viscous force and friction factor gradually decrease and the permeability increases when the flow rate of cooling water is within 4—28 L·h-1
but the permeability is decreased when the flow rate is within 28—40 L·h-1
which indicates that the local resistance of curve part of pore channel is increased because of higher flow velocity.