3-D numerical analysis of EHD turbulent flow and mono-disperse charged particle transport and collection in a wire-plate ESP

A domain decomposition method for three species modeling of multi-electrode negative corona discharge – With applications to electrostatic precipitators

“…Ref. [8], which primarily is important for sub-micrometer particles. Denoting the charge of a particle by Q, the model states that:…”

“…This approach has, e.g., been taken in Refs. [6,8]. In those works, the electrostatic problem has been treated within a one species model with various empirical laws for the boundary condition at the wires.…”

“…Negative corona discharge phenomena occur in a range of industrial applications, including spray painting in the automotive industry, ozone generation, and cleaning of toxic gases [6,8,11,12,14,16,26]. These applications are commonly treated using a one species model for the corona phenomenon.…”

“…In an electrostatic precipitator, which is an air cleaning device, charge that is created by ionization attaches to polluting particles which subsequently are guided towards the collecting plates [4e6, 8,11,12,14,19]. Furthermore, for the considered geometry, Alstom Power in V€ axj€ o, Sweden has performed measurements of the current density at the collector plates [4,5], which are used to validate the domain decomposition method.…”

Experimental Study on EHD Flow Transition in a Small Scale Wire-plate ESP

“…Chang et al [11] established an EHD flow regime map for the wire-plate geometry ESPs under a large range of primary gas flow and applied voltages and defined four typical EHD flow patterns for negative and positive polarity, respectively. Franoosh et al [12] analyzed the EHD turbulent flow and mono-disperse charged particle transport and collection in a wire-plate ESP by the 3D numerical method. Kawakami et al [13] studied the performance characteristics between horizontally and vertically oriented electrodes EHD ESP for collection of lowresistive diesel particulates.…”