Indian-American researcher Viral Patel invents 'dryer' with no heat technology

New Delhi : Indian American researcher Viral Patel has invented an ultrasonic dryer that dries clothes two times faster and five times more efficiently without using heat technology.

Viral Patel along with his team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee invented the dryer that is much faster and quicker in drying the clothes. 'Ultrasonic dryer' is apparently five times more energy efficient and can dry huge amount of clothes in almost half of the regular time.

“It is a completely new approach. Instead of evaporation, it’s technically performing mechanical extraction of the moisture within the fabric,” Patel told Knoxville News Sentinel.

Traditional dryers generally use straight-forward technology, Patel said. “As the air gets sucked in from the surrounding area, it travels through a heater or gas burner and into the drum where the clothes tumble around allowing the heat to absorb the moisture with the air leaving the dryer,” he explained.

However, the ultrasonic dryer uses piezoelectric transducers to remove moisture: when a high-frequency voltage is applied to the transducers, they vibrate at a high frequency causing trapped water to leave the fabric without heat. Basically, the dryer shakes the water out of the clothes, speeding up the process.

It has also be learned that they will be contracting it with GE appliances to push it in for commercial usage.

The dryers can be made available as early as two to five years of time in the markets for consumers to buy it.