Department of energy and general electric have developed a prototype clothes dryer that can dry a load in about half the time a traditional dryer will take using ultrasonic sound rather.
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The ultrasonic dryer is three to five times more energy efficient than existing consumer options and it s able to dry full loads of laundry in 20 to 30 minutes versus the standard 40 to 60.
The energy savings potential is enormous because conventional clothes dryers using thermal heat currently consume about 1 of the energy used in the united states momen noted.
That s a lot of money and energy up to 4 of america s residential energy use we re wasting.
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Dryer prototype using ultrasonic transducers with an ef above 10 drying time is predicted to be 20 minutes.
Aims to make the process of drying clothes very energy efficient.
Heat is used to evaporate water.
Forget heat drying laundry in the future is all about cranking up the volume.
Fraction of drying to be carried out by ultrasonic elements whether this should be incorporated into main drying cycle or as an additional feature dryer prototype design and fabrication integration of ultrasonic subsystems into prototype testing and cycle parameters in 2018 ultrasonic technology solutions exclusively.
We spend 9 billion each year powering our clothes dryers.
Forget heat drying laundry is about cranking up the volume.
Parting from conventional heat based drying methods the technique used here relies on using piezoelectric transducers to generate.
Ornl s new super fast ultrasonic dryer uses 70 percent less energy 7th february 2018 2 1 why this matters in brief tumble dryers account for more than 4 percent of the world s energy consumption so cutting that figure by 70 percent could be a big deal.
Evaporation of water is a very energy intensive process which requires about 2200 kj kg 0 611 kwh kg of energy.
Conventional dryers use heat to dry an article.
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Considering the thermal losses in the typical dryer even more energy is used for drying.