Investigations on Five PMMA Closed Types of Piezo Actuators as a Cooling Fan

• Published in: Polymers Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 377
• Main Authors: Wang, Rong-Tsu, Wang, Jung-Chang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 10.01.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: acrylic; actuator; Ceramics; Cooling; Energy consumption; Experiments; Free convection; Heat transfer; High temperature fluids; Piezoelectric actuators; piezoelectric ceramic; Piezoelectric ceramics; PMMA; Polymers; Polymethyl methacrylate; Reynolds number; Thermal analysis; Thermal resistance; Velocity; Vortices; piezoelectric ceramic; PA; actuator; PMMA; acrylic; thermal analysis
• ISSN: 2073-4360; 2073-4360
• DOI: 10.3390/polym15020377

There are five closed types of piezo actuators (closed type of PA, closed PA) as a cooling fan relative to those different PAJs of the previous work (open type of PAJ, open PAJ) for analysis in the present study. Closed PA was composed of circular piezoelectric ceramics (PCs) and acrylic (PMMA) plates and investigated on five different types at operating conditions. The results show that the noise of the closed PA is quieter than that of the open PAJ by about 10 dB. When the closed PA is deposed at a suitable distance of 10 to 20 mm from the heat source, averting sucking back the high-temperature fluids around that, the thermal convection coefficient is above 120% more than that of the conventional rotary fan. The cooling performances of these five closed PAs were evaluated by thermal analysis technique, and the convection thermal resistance of the best closed PA can be decreased by over 15%. In terms of energy consumption, a monolithic closed PA was less than 10% than that of a rotary fan. Among these five closed PAs, the best one has the essential qualities that the diameter of the piezoelectric sheet is 41 mm, the opening length is 4 mm, and the outer opening length is 10 mm. Moreover, the best operating conditions are a voltage frequency of 300 Hz and a release distance of 15 mm in the present study.