Simulation Study on Indoor Pollen Removal with Variable Exhaust Angle of an Air Purifier

Akinori Hashimoto; Toshiki Takahashi

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.643.199

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Simulation Study on Indoor Pollen Removal with Variable Exhaust Angle of an Air Purifier

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We calculate pollen grain trajectories in indoor airflow generated by an air purifier to investigate its pollen removal efficiency and effectiveness of the swinging louver at its air outlet. The air purifier has the directional airflow output vent on its top surface, and the elevation angle of the exhaust flow can be changed with time. The turbulent airflow field and particle motion are computed alternately. Since the turbulent calculation requires more computational time than the particle motion simulation, we need to accelerate the computation using graphics processing unit (GPU) to increase simulation research efficiency. As a consequence, the calculation of the indoor turbulent airflow and the particle trajectories on the GPU is 18 times faster than the same simulation on the CPU. It is found that variable exhaust angle enhances pollen removal efficiency by 6.9%. Moreover, it appears that we should swing louver from the upper corner of the ceiling to straight above the air purifier at higher angular velocity than 50 deg/s.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 643)

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199-204

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Akinori Hashimoto*, Toshiki Takahashi

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Air Purifier, CFD, GPGPU, LES, Pollen Removal

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