Performance Evaluation of a Duct Cleaning Robot Platform

초록

Underground facility and modern high storage buildings are equiped with a HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) system that supplies fresh and clean air from outdoor environment. Since the air duct system consists of various components such as turning ducts, diverging ducts, air dampers and filters, the complicated structure of the duct system makes the infiltrated particles and pollutants accumulated at inner surface of duct without being exhausted. Therefore, effective and automated cleaning tools is required to sustain the inner duct clean. In this research, a new type of duct cleaning robot has been developed and tested in the test-bed duct system. In addition, its performance has been evaluated.