Novel Experimental Study of Fabric Drying Using Direct-Contact Ultrasonic Vibration

Patel, Viral K.; Reed, Frederick Kyle; Kisner, Roger A.; Peng, Chang; Moghaddam, Saeed; Momen, Ayyoub Mehdizadeh

doi:10.1115/1.4041596

Title: Novel Experimental Study of Fabric Drying Using Direct-Contact Ultrasonic Vibration

Journal Article · 04 November 2018 · Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4041596 · OSTI ID:1481710

^[1]; Reed, Frederick Kyle ^[1];

^[1]; Peng, Chang ^[2]; Moghaddam, Saeed ^[2]; Momen, Ayyoub Mehdizadeh ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)

Here, fabric drying is an energy-intensive process, which generally involves blowing hot dry air across tumbling wet fabric to facilitate evaporation and moisture removal. Most of the energy supplied is used to overcome the enthalpy of vaporization for water. Although this process tends to be inefficient, it is fairly simple and forms the basis for the majority of existing clothes dryer technology today. To address the relatively low efficiency, a new method of drying called “direct contact ultrasonic fabric drying” is proposed. The process involves using high-frequency vibration introduced by piezoelectric transducers, which are in contact with wet fabric. The vibration is used to extract water droplets from the fabric mechanically. In this study, a total of 24 individual transducers are used in a module to dry a 142 cm² sized fabric. The performance characterization of this single module has enabled successful scale-up of the system to a midscale prototype dryer, which can be used to ultrasonically dry clothing-sized fabric (~750 cm²). The first-generation ultrasonic fabric dryer fabricated uses as little as 17% of the energy needed by traditional evaporation-based drying techniques. In addition to experimental data, this paper presents the results of a kinetic and scaling analysis that provides some important insights into ultrasonic drying.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1481710

Journal Information:: Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Journal Name: Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 11; ISSN 1948-5085

Publisher:: ASMECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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