Measuring efficiency of positive and negative ionic wind devices for comparison to fans and blowers

Michael S June, James Kribs, Kevin M Lyons

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Abstract

Many industries are pursuing alternate air moving devices to reduce the power consumption of their air cooled products. The literature suggests that ionic AMDs have low efficiency. The literature, however, does not define efficiency the same way the computer industry defines it for rotary AMDs. In this study, static efficiency of ionic AMDs was evaluated similar to rotary AMDs. Various emitter to collector distances and various ring lengths, were evaluated for positive and negative coronas. By controlling emitter to collector distance and collector length, efficiencies were obtained more reasonably compared to rotary devices. \textcopyright 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)345--350
JournalJournal of Electrostatics
Volume69
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2011

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