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Ultrasonic clothes dryer 2018.
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.
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.
Forget heat drying laundry in the future is all about cranking up the volume.
We spend 9 billion each year powering our clothes dryers.
Aims to make the process of drying clothes very energy efficient.
At least that s how it goes in a lab at oak ridge national laboratory where researchers have built an ultrasonic clothes dryer.
Conventional dryers use heat to dry an article.
Dryer prototype using ultrasonic transducers with an ef above 10 drying time is predicted to be 20 minutes.
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.
Using an ultrasonic process instead could cut drying time in half and use perhaps one tenth of the power with resulting savings in energy cost and time kisner said.
Considering the thermal losses in the typical dryer even more energy is used for drying.
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.
Parting from conventional heat based drying methods the technique used here relies on using piezoelectric transducers to generate.
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.
Taking care of your clothes.
The ultrasonic dryer is expected to be up to five times more efficient than today s products and will dry your clothes in half the time.
Forget heat drying laundry is about cranking up the volume.
That s a lot of money and energy up to 4 of america s residential energy use we re wasting.