Air conditioner without refrigerant: This Filipina, 19, could revolutionise your AC

IFIA learnt about Palma after 10 international organizations, together with Asean awards our bodies, recognised her for the AirDisc Air Conditioning Know-how.

Palma stated she and her father had already accomplished the appliance with the Virginia-based US Patent and Emblems Workplace.

Palma is an incoming mechanical engineering freshman pupil on the De La Salle College (DLSU) in Manila.

‘Unintentional’

The AirDisc know-how discovery got here as an “accident”, she instructed native media.

She was then engaged on an eco-friendly oven for her analysis topic when she was in Grade 10. The energy-efficient oven know-how was dubbed the “AirWave Oven”.

The center of Yza Palma’s AirDisc is a centrifugal compressor that makes use of rotating concentric air tanks with air inlets that constantly soak up sufficient air molecules from a room for compression. The warmth generated from the air compression is separated whereas the compressed air molecules with much less warmth are allowed to increase. This course of successfully and constantly lowers the room temperature. Philippine Star

Whereas additional creating the AirWave oven wherein she was utilizing copper tubes, Palma stated it resulted in emitting chilly air on the finish of the tubes.

“So I believed why not simply develop one thing from this?” she recalled.

The center of the inexperienced AC is the centrifugal compressor, defined Palma.

The compressor makes use of rotating concentric air tanks with air inlets that constantly soak up sufficient air molecules from a room for compression.

As the warmth generated from air compression is separated, the compressed air molecules with much less warmth are allowed to increase: This course of successfully and constantly lowers the room temperature.

Palma stated she and her father are actually searching for companions that can commercially manufacture the AirDisc airconditioner.

The daddy-and-daughter group just lately accomplished patent functions within the Philippines in addition to with the USA Patent and Emblems Workplace (USPTO), native media experiences stated.

The rationale why they utilized with the US patent company, she defined, is that they in the end plan to convey the AirDisc to the US — and the remainder of the world.

Patent treaty

She expplained that the US and the Philippines are amongst 152 “contracting states” of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which took impact in 1978, that assists the world’s inventors and innovators searching for worldwide patent safety for his or her innovations.

Entrance view of Palma’s AirDisc AC prototype. In 2016, about 100 million items of air conditioners have been produced globally. However not everyone might afford one. “The AirDisc will probably be very inexpensive to everybody. And it’s vital to Filipinos. We all know it is vitally scorching right here, there’s world warming and it’s getting worse yearly.” Fb

Requested about her invention’s potential, the younger inventor stated she was enthusiastic about her AirDisc know-how to turn into the way forward for airconditioning for properties and places of work — not simply within the Philippines however in different nations.

One benefit of AirDisc is that it solely makes use of 350 watts of energy, a couple of quarter of the 1,200 watts wanted by conventional airconditioners with the identical cooling output.

Low energy

Palma stated the prototype they’ll manufacture commercially was additional improved, needing solely 150 watts for a 0.5 horsepower unit.

“The prototype I researched on used 350 watts however the business prototype that will probably be accessible out there will solely be 150 watts,” she instructed Philippine Star.

As a result of it doesn’t want freon for cooling, AirDisc AC does away with dangerous emissions into the ambiance.

HFCs are sometimes utilized in air-conditioning as refrigerants instead of older chroloflourocarbones akin to R-12 and hydroflourocarbons akin to R-21.

However specialists level to HFC, an natural compound composed of hydrogen, flourine and carbon, as a potent greenhouse fuel. In consequence, their manufacture and use turned more and more regulated in recent times.

AirDisc is seen as a well timed reply to the United Nation’s Kigali mandate to section out HFCs as chemical refrigerants.

Scientists declare {that a} kilo of HFC is the same as roughly 20,000 kilos of CO2 greenhouse fuel.

Who’s Yza Palma?

Palma, the youngest of six daughters, stated that she had gotten lots of assist from her father, Naga Metropolis-based meals entrepreneur Bernardo who can be a mechanical engineering graduate of DLSU-Manila.

Maria Yzabell Angel Palma (proper) is the youngest in a brood of six. She has utilized for each Philippine and US patents for her “AirDisc” AC-without-refrigerant invention. Fb

The AirDisc has gained gold medals from the World Inventors Contest 2017 in South Korea, the Worldwide Invention Innovation Competitors 2017 in Canada, and the Worldwide Mental Property Invention, Innovation and Know-how Exposition Thailand 2018.

Younger inventor Yza Palma, 19, stated that the US and the Philippines are amongst 152 ‘contracting states’ of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. The treaty took impact in 1978 and is aimed to help the world’s innovators searching for worldwide patent safety for his or her innovations. Fb

Science Secretary Fortunato dela Peña stated they’re prepared to offer Palma with know-how and monetary assist to additional develop the AirDisc.

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