Ozone Generator Unit Air Cooling and Gas Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional ozone generators face issues with pressure variations and inefficient cooling due to uneven gas distribution and the use of water cooling, which can lead to non-uniform stresses and suboptimal heat dissipation.
Innovation Solution
The ozone generator unit and system feature a housing with dielectric discs and a high voltage electrode spaced by spacers to create uniform gas chambers, along with metal-coated dielectric discs and cooling fins for efficient air cooling, ensuring uniform gas flow and heat dissipation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If water cooling is used to dissipate heat from the ozone generator, then cooling efficiency is improved, but safety is worsened due to presence of high voltage current
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces air as an intermediary cooling medium between the hot ozone generator components and the user/environment. Air cooling channels are provided in the housing that allow air to flow over heated surfaces, dissipating heat without requiring direct contact with water or other conductive liquids. This eliminates the electrical conductivity hazard while maintaining effective heat transfer from the high voltage electrode and dielectric materials.
2Device complexity
If conventional ozone generator design is used, then simplicity is improved, but manufacturing precision is worsened due to non-uniform gas distribution and pressure variations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing cooling channels specifically at locations where heat generation is highest - namely around the high voltage electrode and dielectric materials. The housing is designed with localized air cooling passages that target hot spots, ensuring uniform temperature distribution across different regions of the ozone generator. This localized approach to cooling and gas distribution improves manufacturing precision without requiring complete redesign of the entire structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration achieves uniform gas pressures and efficient cooling, enhancing energy efficiency and ozone output by up to 10% compared to conventional methods.
Implementation Method 1
Popularly, ozone may be produced using devices (such as an ozone generator) by utilizing principles such as corona discharge. Corona discharge is the production of an electrical discharge around an electrically charged conductor.
Implementation Method 2
Corona discharge ionizes some of the oxygen molecules in the gas stream. Thereafter, the ionized oxygen recombines with oxygen molecules in the gas stream to produce ozone.
Implementation Method 3
production of ozone may generate heat within the ozone generator, and conventionally water cooling may be used to dissipate such heat
Implementation Method 4
efficient air cooling, ensuring uniform gas flow and heat dissipation
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AI summary
The present disclosure seeks to provide an ozone generator unit. The present disclosure also seeks to provide an ozone generator system. The present disclosure seeks to provide a solution to the existing problems of pressure variations and cooling of ozone generators. An aim of the present disclosure is to provide a solution that overcomes at least partially the problems encountered in prior art, and provides a solution for uniform flow of the gas stream, and efficient cooling for ozone generators. Disclosed is an ozone generator unit. The ozone generator unit comprises a housing (102). The housing comprises a first half (104) having a first recess (204) and a second half (106) having a second recess (206). The ozone generator unit further comprises an inlet (202) and an outlet (110) in the housing, a first dielectric disc (210) arranged within the first recess in contact with an inner surface (240) of the first half, a second dielectric disc (214) arranged within the second recess in contact with an inner surface (242) of the second half, and a high voltage electrode (218), having a gas passage (220), arranged between the first and second dielectric discs. The high voltage electrode is spaced apart from the first and second dielectric discs using a first spacer (230) and a second spacer (232) to constitute a first gas chamber (250) and a second gas chamber (252) on either side of the high voltage electrode.