New type of heating system for clothes dryer
- Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki (Japan)
The basic technology to improve serviceability and reliability of the electric clothes dryer relies on the heater and heat exchanger. This paper describes the status of stress analysis and the evaluation of reliability for semiconductors consisting of BaTiO{sub 3} for disk-type heat exchangers/heaters with honeycomb openings. If the authors could keep the Curie temperature of the semiconductor lower than the ignition temperature of clothing during the drying cycle, installation of two legally limited thermostats would no longer be required and reliability of the control system could be further improved due to its simplified structure. The heater can be made more compact by designing a honeycomb-type heater/heat exchangers but the structural requirements for the heat exchanger and the heater would conflict. An approximate solution to heater/heat exchanger stress is being sought as a thermal stress issue for an equivalent solid compound disc.
- OSTI ID:
- 132204
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950740-; ISBN 0-7918-1347-9; TRN: IM9551%%298
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Joint American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)/Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) pressure vessels and piping conference, Honolulu, HI (United States), 23-27 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Plant systems/components aging management 1995. PVP-Volume 316; Kisisel, I.T. [ed.] [Sargent and Lundy LLC, Chicago, IL (United States)]; Narayanan, T.V. [ed.] [Foster Wheeler Development Corp., Livingston, NJ (United States)]; Sinnappan, J. [ed.] [GDS Associates Inc., Downers Grove, IL (United States)]; Bond, C.B. [ed.] [Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)]; PB: 197 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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