{"id":455,"date":"2020-11-02T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2022-05-13T04:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T03:12:43","slug":"vortex-technology-developed-by-ntu-spin-off-speeds-up-cooling-while-saving-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/vortex-technology-developed-by-ntu-spin-off-speeds-up-cooling-while-saving-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vortex technology developed by NTU spin-off speeds up cooling while saving energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NTU\nProfessor Choo Fook Hoong<\/strong>, <strong>co-director of Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)<\/strong> has\nlaunched <strong>Vortec<\/strong> \u2013 a new ceiling fan that cools a small room twice as\nfast as a conventional fan while consuming half the energy. Vortec is designed\nto generate airflow by creating a controlled vortex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbladeless fan is safe to be mounted lower than conventional ceiling fans, and\nalso comes with LED lighting and a UV light air purifier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First\nconceptualized by Prof Choo about ten years ago, Vortec fans have now been\ninstalled at several locations at the <strong>Nanyang Technological University,\nSingapore (NTU Singapore)<\/strong>, where they have been proven effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full news release from NTU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntu.edu.sg\/docs\/default-source\/corporate-ntu\/hub-news\/vortex-technology-developed-by-ntu-spin-off-speeds-up-cooling-while-saving-energy0d9f3de6-b353-49f5-b4b8-d4d900968a6b.pdf?sfvrsn=5b09f393_3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTU Professor Choo Fook Hoong, co-director of Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) has launched Vortec \u2013 a new ceiling fan that cools a small room twice as fast as a conventional fan while consuming half the energy. Vortec is designed to generate airflow by creating a controlled vortex. The bladeless fan is safe to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/vortex-technology-developed-by-ntu-spin-off-speeds-up-cooling-while-saving-energy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Vortex technology developed by NTU spin-off speeds up cooling while saving energy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vortev.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}