Atomizing Jet Diffuser- Principle of Operation

            There are several ways to diffuse essential oils utilizing different principles of operation. The first method is to use ultrasonic vibration on a mixed pool of essential oil and water. This method has the disadvantage of generally requiring a large dilution of a few drops of essential oil into hundreds of milliliters of water. Another method is to use a resistive heating element to heat liquid essential oil in order to vaporize the liquid oil into a gas. This approach has the disadvantage of the heat used potentially altering the chemical makeup of the essential oil. Due to the aforementioned disadvantages of these methods, Time Laboratories instead uses a novel method that does not require heat or water. Our diffusers use a patented assembly containing an atomizing jet in order to suspend undiluted liquid essential oil droplets as a fine mist in an air stream. 

            Time Laboratories diffusers utilize fundamental principles of fluid dynamics to deliver a fine mist of undiluted essential oil. The diffuser jet assembly housing works as a venturi which utilizes a fastmoving air stream to draw essential oil out of the bottle, through the liquid jet, and into a fluid chamber.  Then the essential oil and air exit this chamber by being forced through an atomizing jet which reduces the liquid essential oil to a fine mist of miniscule particles suspended in the air stream. Subsequently the air essential oil mixture passes through a baffled chamber which serves to further refine the mist by removing any remaining large liquid particles. Finally, the mixture leaves the assembly and enters the outside air as a refined mist, free of any large droplets which might otherwise cohere and land on surrounding surfaces. This approach utilizes custom precision mechanical components engineered to diffuse a concentrated mist of essential oil into the air.

            It is our opinion that our method of essential oil diffusion delivers higher concentrations of essential oil at larger volumes in an undiluted and unchanged way compared to other essential oil diffusion methods available.

Jeremy Davis

Mechanical Engineer 

Time Laboratories