Performance Analysis of 3D Printed Impellers for Portable Vacuum Cleaner

Additive manufacturing has become very handy now a days to check the performance of a prototype product, before launching it to the market. This includes 3D printing of a product layer by layer using various technologies, such as fusion deposition modelling, Vat Photopolymerization, Powder Bed Fusion,Material Jetting etc. in this paper fusion deposition modelling (FDM) technology has been used to print Portable Vacuum cleaner. This paper carries out the performance analysis of a vacuum cleaner based on the performance of the impeller fitted in it. Three different design of impellers are 3D printed with varied design as Open, closed and semi-closed impelers. The performance of these three impellers has been checked using three common parameters, i.e., noise level, particle size of sucking, and battery running hours. AHP analysis has been carried out to find the best-performing impeller. The portable vacuum cleaner has been fabricated using a 3D printer in an additive manufacturing lab. These three impellers have been fabricated using an in-house 3D printer. It is found that closed impeller fitted Vacuum cleaner is giving the best result. This paper will be usefull to academicians as well industrialist to understand the varied performance of any Vacuum cleaner due to change of its Impeller.