Design and Performance Study of Radiation Evaporation Integrated Passive Cooling Wood

CHEN Pengyu, LIU Wei, WANG Wensheng, XU Dongnan, CHANG Shaocong, SUN Zhuangzhi

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Forest Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (03) : 578-584. DOI: 10.7525/j.issn.1006-8023.2025.03.014
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Design and Performance Study of Radiation Evaporation Integrated Passive Cooling Wood

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In order to solve the problems of conventional radiative cooling devices limited by the theoretical cooling power limit of 150 W/m2 and by the inhibition of radiant power by low-temperature condensate on the radiant surface and the intrinsic water under high humidity conditions, an asymmetric functional structure design based on unidirectional liquid transport proposes a passively cooled wood (REW) with radiative refrigeration and evaporative cooling integrated in series. The wood is delignified by a sodium chlorite solution to enhance its hydrophilicity; then a hydrophobic silica/epoxy solution with high reflectivity and infrared emission properties is coated on the top of the hydrophilic wood to form a hydrophobic radiative cooling layer, while the hydrophilic wood at the bottom serves as an evaporative cooling layer. By virtue of the asymmetric wetting design with unidirectional water transport, low-temperature condensate can be spontaneously transported through the radiation-cooling layer to the evaporative-cooling layer for evaporative cooling, whereas the native water in the evaporative-cooling layer is unable to pass through the radiation-cooling layer to inhibit radiation. As a result, based on the tandem integration of radiant-evaporative cooling, the REW achieves a maximum cooling power of 214 W/m2 during daytime, and 172 W/m2 even at high humidity of 80%, which is more than 2.8 times higher than that of radiant cooling alone. The potential application of REW in energy-efficient cooling of buildings is demonstrated through building models, providing a universal optimisation strategy for expanding the practical application of passive cooling and new insights into the functional utilisation of wood resources.

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Radiative cooling / evaporative cooling / integrated / unidirectional water transfer / wood

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CHEN Pengyu , LIU Wei , WANG Wensheng , et al . Design and Performance Study of Radiation Evaporation Integrated Passive Cooling Wood. Forest Engineering. 2025, 41(03): 578-584 https://doi.org/10.7525/j.issn.1006-8023.2025.03.014

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