In this paper the present situation of the development of heat pipe heat exchanger has been briefly introduced. At present, the heat pipe heat exchanger is widely applieated due to its low investment, good heat exchange performance, and the equipment volume is small. In this paper the characteristic performance of several kinds of heat pipe heat exchanger were introduced mainly. Which includs, standard heat pipe, gravity heat pipe, pvavity auxilliary heat pipe and spinning heat pipe. And the feature of the perforformance of these heat pipe exchangers have also analyzed. By using heat pipe heat exchanger, not only the supply and demand problem on energy in our country can be solved, but also can bring more economic profits.