Method and device for enhancing a process involving a solid object and a gas
AssigneeForce Technology
InventorNiels Krebs
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Abstract
This invention relates to a sonic device (and a method) for enhancing a process involving a solid object and a gas, where the gas surrounds the object or at least is in contact with a surface of the object, the device comprising sonic means for applying a high intensity sound or ultrasound to at least the surface object, wherein the high intensity sound or ultrasound, during use of the sonic device, is applied directly in the gas that is also the medium through which the high intensity sound or ultrasound propagates to the surface of the object, whereby a laminar sub-layer at the surface of the object is reduced and/or minimized. The reduction of the laminar sub-layer provides increased heat transfer efficiency and/or increased catalytic speed and/or increased gas exchange.
Claims10
A method of enhancing a process involving a solid object and a gas, the method comprising:
- placing the solid object before a sonic device;
- introducing the gas so that the gas flows over a surface of the object;
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- applying by the sonic device a high intensity sound or ultrasound to at least the surface of the object to disrupt a laminar sub-layer at the surface of the object and thereby enhance the process involving the solid object and the gas, whereby the high intensity sound or ultrasound is applied in the gas that is the medium through which the high intensity sound or ultrasound propagates to the surface of the object, and the high intensity sound or ultrasound has an intensity that is 140 dB or larger.
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